2011/2/15 David Lutterkort <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:17 +0100, Raphaël Pinson wrote: >> The numbers are all mixed up! Why is that happening? > > When using recursive lenses, Augeas uses a context-free parser. The > first step in parsing is to construct a parse tree, the second step > consists of traversing the parse tree. Leaves in the parse tree > correspond to the non-recursive parts of your lens, for example 'value' > and 'counter "foo"' > > The traversal of the parse tree does not visit leaves in strict > left-to-right order - in fact, the traversal is mostly right-to-left. > That explains why you see nodes in reverse order; for the 'jumbled' > sequence 3, 1, 2 you'd have to look at the actual parse tree. > > In a nutshell: seq/counter don't really work with recursive lenses. > Fixing that would be a serious amount of work since it would affect the > whole recursive lens machinery. >
Alright, so the best solution is really to use label instead of seq. Thanks for the explanation. Raphaël _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
