On 3/8/2010 10:31 AM, Daniel V Klein wrote:
> Les-
>
> I think you may have missed my core point. The issue is not library versus
> you, or anything like that. A declarative language says "what will be", and
> does not change what already satisfies that. Additionally, getting to the
> stage of "
Les-
I think you may have missed my core point. The issue is not library versus
you, or anything like that. A declarative language says "what will be", and
does not change what already satisfies that. Additionally, getting to the
stage of "what you want" may take a few cycles.
Just looking at
CF does what it does and does it well whether it is programming language
or not. It is definitely not like a scripting language and because of
this I often find I have to alter my approach to promises. My mind tries
to rely on its experience with shell and perl scripts but those methods
don't
daniel.kl...@cfengine.com wrote:
> Because it is a declarative promise language - which is somewhat different
> than the usual imperative programming language model. A fine point, but
> different nontheless. Declarative languages are hard to get your head around
> if you think in purely imperativ
Because it is a declarative promise language - which is somewhat different
than the usual imperative programming language model. A fine point, but
different nontheless. Declarative languages are hard to get your head around
if you think in purely imperative terms. Once you "let go" and allow
you
On 3/2/2010 11:28 AM, Daniel V Klein wrote:
>
> Cfengine is not a programming language - it may have some language-like
> features, but it is not a programming language.
How can something that controls what a program does not best be
understood as a programming language?
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:28:25PM -0500, Daniel V Klein wrote:
>> That's good to hear--there's at least one other crazy person here! :-)
>
>That's me, crazy...
>
>> >As long as you're at it, you probably want a tolower() and toupper() functio
>> n.
>>
>> And, left(), right(), substr(), length(),
> That's good to hear--there's at least one other crazy person here! :-)
That's me, crazy...
> >As long as you're at it, you probably want a tolower() and toupper() functio
> n.
>
> And, left(), right(), substr(), length(), sprintf(), s///, and others.
No. left/right/substr are from before re
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:58:35AM -0500, Daniel V Klein wrote:
>Speaking just for myself (and not cfengine today), I think this is a good idea.
That's good to hear--there's at least one other crazy person here! :-)
>As long as you're at it, you probably want a tolower() and toupper() function.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:45:32AM -0500, Mark Burgess wrote:
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>Why don't you use the expand_template method for file editing?
I already do.
I am working on writing several things "around" this, so that I canget
to calling expand_template in a generalized bundle, instead of
duplicating many line
Speaking just for myself (and not cfengine today), I think this is a good idea.
As long as you're at it, you probably want a tolower() and toupper() function.
You can get "ignore case" on regular expression matching with PCRE '(?i)',
but converting to lower or to upper on output is harder (and if y
Why don't you use the expand_template method for file editing?
M
Jesse Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:33:15AM -0500, nwat...@symcor.com wrote:
>> I don't think there is a function at present for string search a replace
>> actions out side of file editing. Perhaps look at it from a
canonify will change /path/to/file to path_to_file.
Sincerely,
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:33:15AM -0500, nwat...@symcor.com wrote:
>I don't think there is a function at present for string search a replace
>actions out side of file editing. Perhaps look at it from a higher level.
> Why is string manipulation needed?
There are two reasons, one specific, and
I don't think there is a function at present for string search a replace
actions out side of file editing. Perhaps look at it from a higher level.
Why is string manipulation needed?
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I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here: is there a way
to do basic string search and replacement?
For example, I have a string "foo:bar:baz", and I want to convert ":ba"
into "-DA". Thus, the output string would be "foo-DAr-DAz". This is
trivial in perl/sed/awk, but I can't find
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