Jira (PUP-6361) Prepending a class definition's name with double colons results in an illegal fully qualified name

[Rob Nelson (JIRA)]

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Rob Nelson created an issue   Puppet / PUP-6361 Prepending a class definition's name with double colons results in an illegal fully qualified name Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 4.5.0 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2016/05/26 12:54 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Rob Nelson If you create a class with a name that includes two colons, it appears (as it is difficult to ascertain) to generate a class with an illegal fully qualified name. You can then no longer reference the class because it is an illegal fully qualified name. $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'class ::passwd {} include passwd' Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not find class ::passwd for build03.nelson.va at line 1:19 on node build03.nelson.va   $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'class ::passwd {} include ::passwd' Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not find class ::passwd for build03.nelson.va at line 1:19 on node build03.nelson.va   $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'class ::passwd {} include ::::passwd' Error: Could not parse for environment production: Illegal fully qualified name at line 1:29 on node build03.nelson.va   $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'class passwd {} include passwd' Notice: Compiled catalog for build03.nelson.va in environment production in 0.05 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds   $ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'class passwd {} include ::passwd' Notice: Compiled catalog for build03.nelson.va in environment production in 0.05 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds   $ bundle exec puppet --version 4.5.0 I feel that attempting to define a class in a way that generates an illegal fully qualified name should generate an error during the definition, rather than during attempts to use it. This would be more clear to authors, earlier in their development process. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.13#64028-sha1:b7939e9) -- 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.