vagn scott: > I think one could make a case for getting rid of global variables > entirely.
Functionally, this is common advice for avoiding the pitfalls of puppet's peculiar dynamic scope. Newcomers are often advised to use $::foo::bar::baz to avoid picking up data from unexpected places in the chain of invocations. -- "Some of us figured out in the 1950s that blacklists were a bad idea. Some of us have that lesson still ahead of us." -- John Gilmore, on RBLs. -- 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.