Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Users may not be aware of the meaning of interpolating a path value (adding it to the store).
Alternatively, the may not realize that their subexpression evaluates to a path value, making the following error surprising:

nix-repl> "${/var/lib/someService}"
error: getting status of '/var/lib/someService': No such file or directory

Nix could provide more context in this situation.

• while adding a path to the store
• while interpolating a path value into a string, at location xyz

Describe the solution you'd like

nix-repl> "${/var/lib/someService}"
error: getting status of '/var/lib/someService': No such file or directory
          while adding a path to the store
          while interpolating a path value into a string, at <command line>:1:3

or similar

Describe alternatives you've considered

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