From 2698fe8611d5fbc5db1d321473f83f446664c83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: toonn <T8N@toonn.io>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 13:13:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] manual: Update Attribute Set section to exclude indented
 strings and URIs

Indented strings and URIs are string literals but they are not allowed
as names for attrsets, `let` or `inherit`. The following snippets
illustrate that they lead to syntax errors.

==> examples/ind_str-attr.nix <==
{
  ''indented string'' = "error: syntax error, expecting '}'";
}

==> examples/ind_str-inherit.nix <==
{ inherit ({ "non-indented string" = "error: syntax error, expecting ';'"; })
    ''non-indented string'';
}

==> examples/ind_str-let.nix <==
let
  ''indented string'' = "error: syntax error, expecting 'in'";
in
  true

==> examples/uri-attr.nix <==
{
  http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2 = "error: syntax error, expecting '}'";
}

==> examples/uri-inherit.nix <==
{ inherit ({ "http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2" = "error: syntax error, expecting ';'"; })
    http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2;
}

==> examples/uri-let.nix <==
let
  http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2 = "error: syntax error, expecting 'in'";
in
  true

Change-Id: I6774af93baf9f533877642a563775667c518ea88
---
 doc/manual/src/language/values.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual/src/language/values.md b/doc/manual/src/language/values.md
index ae4e9bd14..a9edf9946 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/language/values.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/language/values.md
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Note that lists are only lazy in values, and they are strict in length.
 
 An attribute set is a collection of name-value-pairs (called *attributes*) enclosed in curly brackets (`{ }`).
 
-An attribute name can be an identifier or a [string](#type-string).
+An attribute name can be an identifier or a [double-quoted string](#type-string).
 An identifier must start with a letter (`a-z`, `A-Z`) or underscore (`_`), and can otherwise contain letters (`a-z`, `A-Z`), numbers (`0-9`), underscores (`_`), apostrophes (`'`), or dashes (`-`).
 
 > *name* = *identifier* | *string* \