On 06/21/2012 08:55 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> $value = 1
>> $value-2 = 2
>> $sum = $value-2 +2
>
> I don't see the problem. Those aren't ambiguous for a parser properly
> configured. $sum = 4.
...if the parser distinguishes "$value-2" from "$value - 2". Semantic
whitespaces? Really?
As so often, th
On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:30 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
> Also ruby, and this is significant, allowing people to make variable
> names that they cannot use in a template is not doing them any favours
> as it force them to do scope.lookupvar("foo-foo").
Ruby allows capitalization. Puppet does not. There a
On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Felix Frank wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 12:30 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I'm still struggling to see this.
>> Every place that class names are used should be single quoted, according
>> to your style guide. And it's very easy in a syntax to
- Original Message -
> From: "Felix Frank"
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:18:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Custom facts and hyphens
>
> On 06/21/2012 12:30 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> > I'm not saying that
On 06/21/2012 12:30 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I'm still struggling to see this.
> Every place that class names are used should be single quoted, according
> to your style guide. And it's very easy in a syntax to tell the
> different between 'test-jo + 2' and 'test
On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:02 PM, 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 variables
> in expres
On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:22 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>> Are hyphens now officially bad practice? I have a nagging half-memory
>> that I read that they're not good in facts, indeed all of the normal
>> facts are underscore'd but I can't remember where I read it.
>
> They've always been a bad idea, used
- Original Message -
> From: "Steph Gosling"
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:20:12 PM
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Custom facts and hyphens
>
> Hi all,
>
> Possibly related to http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10146 but I
> wanted to get a second
