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Qyriad b3e24cb3e5 new option: abort-on-warn
Co-authored-by: Emilia Bopp <contact@ebopp.de>

Change-Id: I3c3347e51d8543fbeb2b4e6ed12b0f556a6a6964
2025-11-22 16:48:53 +01:00

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synopsis: "Add `builtins.warn` for emitting warnings from Nix code"
cls: [2248]
category: "Features"
credits: [milibopp, Qyriad]
---
Lix now has a builtin function for emitting warnings.
Like `builtins.trace`, it takes two arguments: the message to emit, and the expression to return.
_Unlike_ `builtins.trace`, `builtins.warn` requires the first argument — the message — to be a string.
In the future we may extend `builtins.warn` to accept a more structured API.
To go along with this, we also have two new config settings:
- [`debugger-on-warn`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-debugger-on-warn), which, when used with `--debugger`, makes `builtins.warn` also function like [`builtins.break`](@docroot@/language/builtins.md#builtins-break).
- [`abort-on-warn`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-abort-on-warn), which aborts evaluation entirely after the warning is emitted.