On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
> Mark, see this doc:
>
> http://www.cfengine.com/manuals/st-devops.html#Getting-used-to-declarative-expression
>
> M
Thanks Mark, much appreciated: I had missed the link to the special topics
guides.
However, it wasn't the "if" bit I was fuzzy about, it was how people use
the language to do the job of an "if..elif..else" construct in the
clearest and least fragile way.
Extending the example on the devops page naively would mean that the
"else" part will quickly become unmanageable.
In my example, I created a third class to play this role and act as a
default:
...
>> classes:
>> location_A expression => classify("$(location_A)");
>> location_B expression => classify("$(location_B)");
>> location_unknown not => classmatch("location_.*");
...
Is this the sort of way people do it in practice?
If so, it clearly shows I need to think carefully about the structure of
class names to aid with pattern matching.
Thanks,
Mark
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