On Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:55:15 AM UTC-7, Erik Dalén wrote:
> But I'm wondering about the section on "Reserved Variable Names" that > says that reusing fact names as variables in a local scope may cause > malfunctions. This is something I've done quite a lot without any > problem, is it considered unsupported and might break in future > versions? > No no -- it's just that if you're declaring a class from someone else's module and they didn't use the $::fact idiom, overriding a fact might change the class's environment enough to break it. If you know what's going on in your classes you're fine, and if you're overriding a fact in a scope that doesn't beget any other scopes you're fine. I should rewrite that to be more clear! -- 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/-/y1q-alvsI2kJ. 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.
