Comment by helibom

I'm still new to both Guile and Guix, but I've been reading the Guile and Guix reference manuals recently and I think some of your concerns about eager vs. lazy evaluation of packages are addressed by Guile's quoting mechanism, more specifically "quasiquote" [1]. This quoting mechanism allows passing around references to package definitions and whatnot, without actually evaluating those expressions until build time. Guix extends quasiquote to create something called "G-expressions" [2], which are even more so fitted to something like the Guix/Nix build system.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Expressi...

2. https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/guix.html#G_002dExpress...