* Add a function ‘mapAttrsToList’ that maps a function over the

attributes in a set, returning a list.  (Note that the regular
  ‘mapAttrs’ returns an attribute set.)

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=34509
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Eelco Dolstra 2012-06-14 19:07:01 +00:00
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@ -146,6 +146,18 @@ rec {
listToAttrs (map (attr: f attr (getAttr attr set)) (attrNames set));
/* Call a function for each attribute in the given set and return
the result in a list.
Example:
mapAttrsToList (name: value: name + value)
{ x = "a"; y = "b"; }
=> [ "xa" "yb" ]
*/
mapAttrsToList = f: attrs:
map (name: f name (getAttr name attrs)) (attrNames attrs);
/* Like `mapAttrs', except that it recursively applies itself to
attribute sets. Also, the first argument of the argument
function is a *list* of the names of the containing attributes.