Agreed, but as John points out, it *was* legal (intentionally or not) so this is a breaking change for some people.
Being a breaking change, I would vote for backing it out until something can be decided that will not break existing systems. Is there any value that current is not valid in a key that would work instead of a dot? Thanks, Trevor On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Thomas Hallgren < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-04-02 01:29, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > >> I think perhaps if the issue could be pointed out that provides for *key* >> interpolation on dotted values without interpolation notation, that might >> clear things up. >> >> Thomas' example does provide HI-14 as I read it *but* there may have been >> an unintended side effect that the following is a disaster for exsiting >> sites: >> >> my.days_up: "%{system_uptime.days}" >> >> my.days_up will try to traverse into the data structure of 'my' and will >> break. This is bad. Nothing should be interpolated that is not surrounded >> in "%{}" >> >> >> I think that whether declaring a value with a dotted key is considered > legal or not is a separate discussion. If that's the case, then we can't > use dots to traverse. Not when looking up and not in interpolated > expressions (since that's an implicit lookup). > > - thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/puppet-dev/551C860E.7030701%40puppetlabs.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoVtQhG34cFk6BADSnQAubrWhLx6ARbmKEmGDJ9ZMTwBtw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
