Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: defining inline bodies Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21859,21939#msg-21939
Seva Gluschenko Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sauer, > > since your proposal makes parsing more > complicated, I doubt seriously that it would be > accepted by developers. As for me, I'd rather like > to see ability to specify containing body > parameters as ordinary ones, like: > > commands: > "$(command)" > useshell => "false", > umask => "002"; > > but I doubt it would be accepted, too. I'd suggest that this would be impossible, as it pollutes the namespace of the command oject with potentially conflicting attributes of different objects (contain, etc). The use of inlined bodies would be analogous to anonymous references, such as are used heavily in perl. I don't see it being a huge parsing complexity; the RHS of an attribute is a value of an expected type, and if the first character of that value is an opening brace, you just find the closing brace (following the same rules which are already used to define blocks) and assign the inline body a unique name using . The main argument is probably more along the lines of lost modularity and the potential for marginally more complex code. But in the case where I just want to define something like one or two attributes of a compound body, I'd make the argument that this enhanced syntax would potentially lead to the ability to be more expressive. Rather than having to search for the compound body definition, which could well be in another file, one can just look directly at the body definition which is inline. But anyway - the point was to ask if there is currently a syntax for this or not. Having not seen a "yes, here's how:," I'll presume the answer is no. The debate over its merits and issues would probably be just as well done in the bug tracker in a feature request. :) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
