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Built-in Functions
This section lists the functions built into the Nix expression
evaluator. (The built-in function derivation is discussed above.)
Some built-ins, such as derivation, are always in scope of every Nix
expression; you can just access them right away. But to prevent
polluting the namespace too much, most built-ins are not in
scope. Instead, you can access them through the builtins built-in
value, which is a set that contains all built-in functions and values.
For instance, derivation is also available as builtins.derivation.
derivation attrs;builtins.derivation attrsderivation is described in its own section.