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.

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