On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Brice Figureau < brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote:
> On 20/05/11 22:24, Randall Hansen wrote: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7612 > > > > The exported resources syntax: > > > > @@user { luke: ensure => present } > > > > Is concise and powerful, but very difficult to read. We should > > consider word-based syntax, e.g.: > > > > export @user { luke: ensure => present } > > > > And taking into account #7605, perhaps: > > > > export virtual user { luke: ensure => present } > > > > Please comment on the ticket or reply here, whichever you prefer. > > I sincerely hope you'll keep the old syntax around. > > I'm terribly sorry to be negative, but I really don't like this kind of > verbosity. > > This is a language, and every language has some idioms. IMHO, newcomers > should better read the documentation than trying to infer what the > language does by reading example of it. This feature is an advanced > feature I don't expect newcomers to grasp in its short or verbose form, > they'll have to read about it. > > One thing I like with the Puppet DSL is that it's concise, you can > express resources states with the less word possible, yet still be > readable. > > If you really want to simplify people's life, make those extra > attributes become metaparameters (but please keep the old syntax): > > user { luke: ensure => present, virtual => [boolean] } > > That would even allow us to parametrize virtuality/exportability with > the help of an expression (ie selectors, functions, boolean expressions > ...) > > ++ This would be great. Being able to filter on virtual/export status would be killer. -- Nigel Kersten Product, Puppet Labs @nigelkersten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
