On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:07:56 PM UTC-5, Nick Fagerlund wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7:19:20 AM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote: >> >> >> Have I missed a change in plan for node variables, so that in Puppet 3 >> they remain accessible outside node declarations? Does that form of >> dynamic scoping live on? >> >> > Yeah, they're effectively a tiny island of dynamic scoping in the > otherwise-static sea. It turned out we had to do it that way -- we're > working on replacing node definitions as we know them with something > better, but we couldn't do everything in one fell swoop, so we're in a bit > of an awkward stage for the moment. >
Great, thanks for clearing that up. What I've been trying to tell people is: > [...] > - oh, and don't ever use node inheritance. > Why not? I mean, is that just to avoid the known issues with dynamic scope, or does node inheritance introduce special problems in this context? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/D7zQ9XCZ98QJ. 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.
