On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forum: CFEngine Help
> Subject: Re: It is possible to uses a slist variable in the inputs directive ?
> Author: davidlee
> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26281,26299#msg-26299
>
> Where, please, does the ref. manual describe this quoting/non-quoting?
1.5 Syntax, identifiers and names
The CFEngine 3 language has a few simple rules:
CFEngine built-in words, and identifiers of your choosing (the names
of variables, bundles, body templates and classes) may only contain
the usual alphanumeric and underscore characters (‘a-zA-Z0-9_’).
All other `literal' data must be quoted.
...
CFEngine uses many `constraint expressions' as part of the body of a
promise. These take the form: left-hand-side (CFEngine word) ‘=>’
right-hand-side (user defined data). This can take several forms:
cfengine_word => user_defined_template(parameters)
user_defined_template
builtin_function()
"quoted literal scalar"
{ list }
As you can see from the preceeding paragraph, scalar values are
quoted, lists are not.
> I get the feeling that $(foo) has to be quoted every time, without exception.
That's right.
> But if I say @(bar), it seems that quoting is optional. When such mentions
> of @(bar) happen to occur in the ref. manual, the cases seem arbitrary and
> confused.
>
> When should, and should not, mentions of lists of quoted?
Per the reference manual, as quoted above, mentions of lists are not quoted.
I am sorry your documentation bugs have not been acknowledged yet,
bugs in the documentation can really frustrate new users and barrier
adoption.
Yours truly,
Aleksey
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