On 12/11/13 14:59, Alex Heneveld wrote:
One minor suggestion is to consider using a special character (eg $)
rather than reserved keywords. As I understand it the keywords are only
interpreted when they exactly match the value of a key in a map, so it
is already unlikely to be problematic. However I think it would be more
familiar and clear if we instead used the rule that any item (key or
value) which _starts_ with a $ is interpreted specially. What those
rules are is TBD but you could for instance write functions -- as either
`$get_param('xxx')` or `$get_param: xxx` -- as well as allow accessing a
parameter directly `$xxx `.
This sounds like a nice idea on the surface. AWS accomplished the same
thing by namespacing functions with the Fn:: prefix (except for 'Ref',
bizarrely), and it works fine because the chances are if you randomly
(maybe in a Metadata section) have a dict key that happens to start with
"Fn::" then you can probably just choose a different name. However, if
for any reason you have a dict key starting with "$" and we interpret
that specially, then you are basically hosed since you almost certainly
_needed_ it to actually start with "$" for a reason. So -1.
cheers,
Zane.
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