Add manual section on modular configurations #1841
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This commit import the Tweag blog post on the Nickel merge system (https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-11-02-nickel-merge-system/) into the manual almost verbatim (beside a few trivial changes such as "post" -> "section"). This blog post explores how to use the merging system to emulate a form of modules, and thus write modular configurations, which isn't covered currently.
vkleen
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| Nickel is currently released in version `1.3`. We expect the core design of the | ||
| language to be stable and the language to be useful for real-world applications. | ||
| The next steps we plan to work on are: | ||
| Nickel is currently released in version `1.4`. The core design of the language |
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Did we forget updating that, again? Or did this change sneak in from somewhere elese?
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I think we just didn't update it. We updated it in the README probably, but not here, and sadly the introduction is just a copy of a part of the README.
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Co-authored-by: Viktor Kleen <viktor.kleen@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Viktor Kleen <viktor.kleen@tweag.io>
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Closes #1394.
This PR imports the Tweag blog post about the Nickel merge system (https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-11-02-nickel-merge-system/) into the manual almost verbatim (beside a few trivial changes such as "post" -> "section"). This blog post explores how to use the merging system to write modular configurations, which isn't covered currently in the manual.