On 16 dec. 2011, at 16:10, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:53:10 +0100 (CET) neilhwatson wrote: > > n> One other point comes to mind if you'll indulge me again. I think this was > n> mentioned before. Passing parameters to bundles. I'd like to see this > done > n> better. The current positional approach is very limited. It might be > helpful > n> to show the parameters in left and right pairs. E.g. > > n> "any" usebundle => ssh_pub_key( > n> user => "bob", > n> keys => "$(main.bobskeys)"; > n> ); > > n> It may also be handy to have a mechanism to set a default value to the > called > n> bundle if a variable is not passed, similar to var="value" unless (var);. > > If there's one thing I'd like to see, this is it! My JSON proposal was > 50% addressing the lack of named parameters and 50% about not defining > so many body templates (the latter, I think, is what Mark discouraged). > > Perhaps named parameters could be implemented with an alternate promise > parameter, e.g. "usebundle_positional" or something like that. That > would preserve backwards compatibility. >
I also like the idea of having default values and if specified override them without having positional arguments. -- Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nl _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
