Jira (PUP-5635) accessing facts via another scope

[Reinhard Vicinus (JIRA)]

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Reinhard Vicinus created an issue   Puppet / PUP-5635 accessing facts via another scope Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2015/12/22 1:36 PM Priority: Minor Reporter: Reinhard Vicinus It's possible to access a fact via another scope other then the currently active or top scope: class test::params {}   class test ( timezone = $test::params::timezone, ) inherits params { notice($timezone) }   include ::test I would expect with strict_variables active that this would generate an error because timezone isn't declared in test::params. But instead the value of the fact timezone is returned. Accessing facts and other automatically imported variables via top scope for historical reasons I can understand. But for any other scopes, then the currently active, I can see no valid reasons to access a fact or other automatically imported variables via them. Also the behavior is unexpected, at least for me. So I think this can be classified as a bug and not a feature. But I'm not sure so if you think this is a feature you can close this bug report. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.12#64027-sha1:e3691cc) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.