Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Custom facts and hyphens

2012-06-21 Thread jcbollinger
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:02:26 PM UTC-5, Steph wrote: > > I've not given it too much thought but I do have sympathy for argument > that divergence of (some of) Puppet's logical representations and their > labels from what's extant on the system reduces clarity and could > introduce error.

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Custom facts and hyphens

2012-06-20 Thread Steph Gosling
Hi, On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Nick Fagerlund wrote: > What R.I. said. Hyphens in variable names and class names are a no-no, > although they kinda work in some versions of Puppet. Use underscores > instead. > > (Why are hyphens a problem? Well, partly because you can subtract

[Puppet Users] Re: Custom facts and hyphens

2012-06-20 Thread Nick Fagerlund
What R.I. said. Hyphens in variable names and class names are a no-no, although they kinda work in some versions of Puppet. Use underscores instead. (Why are hyphens a problem? Well, partly because you can subtract variables in expressions. The ambiguity turned out to be a problem.) -- You r