Issue #7606 has been updated by Nick Fagerlund.
Ixnay on curly braces for conditions! Curlies enclose blocks of "live" code;
they hold words that **instantiate or modify** things. What you're wrapping
here are words that **identify** things without directly affecting them.
And we already use square brackets for that purpose in resource references. And
references can be given blocks of attribute overrides the same way collections
can:
File['apacheconf'] {
mode => 0640,
}
In fact, if you think about it, they're really the same thing.
* Collection of one: `File['foo'] { some code }`
* Collection of several: `File['foo', 'bar'] { some code }`
* Collection of all: `File { some code }`
* Collection by search: `File[mode == 0644] { some code }`
* Or something.
That's how I, intuitively, want it to look: just like all the other pieces of
syntax it's exactly like. I'm not sure about edge cases, though -- like, how do
we become totally sure that's not the name of the resource, and all that.
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Feature #7606: Spaceship operator too magical, hard to read
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7606
Author: Randall Hansen
Status: Investigating
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Affected Puppet version:
Keywords: puppetcamp-eu-2011
Branch:
The spaceship operator:
User <| group == sysadmin or title == luke |>
Is relatively easy to type but, if you don't know it, very hard to read. We
should consider a word-based syntax, e.g.:
collect User { group == sysadmin or title == luke }
User search { group == sysadmin or title == luke }
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*This ticket is a request for comment, coming out of a discussion at Puppet
Camp EU, 2011. No promises whatever about implementation, but there were
enough people interested to open a public discussion.*
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