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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "Théo Maxime Tyburn" <theo.tyburn@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idea: Function composition to declare operating-system
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:11:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r10tvpbe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edwylxe9.fsf@gmail.com> ("Théo Maxime Tyburn"'s message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:14:11 +0200")

Hi Théo,

Théo Maxime Tyburn <theo.tyburn@gmail.com> skribis:

> I experimented on a functional approach to the operating
> system declaration. My goal was to be able to pass an operating-system
> instance to a composition of functions, modifying it one after another
> and returning the desired operating-system object. I find this approach
> more convenient because it allows for better segmentation of the system
> features. I achieved to make it work for the system declaration I
> usually use and I’d like to share it with you.

Neat!  In some cases, having “transformation” functions is clearer
indeed.  There’s a couple of them in the code, such as
‘virtualized-operating-system’, that make it easy to adapt an OS config
to a specific use case.

Thanks for sharing!

Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-02 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-29 15:14 Idea: Function composition to declare operating-system Théo Maxime Tyburn
2022-08-30  8:49 ` muradm
2022-08-30 10:52   ` Théo Maxime Tyburn
2022-08-31 13:08 ` Hartmut Goebel
2022-09-02 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-08-29 20:52 Nathan Dehnel

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