Issue #5042 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.

Assignee deleted (Daniel Pittman)

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Bug #5042: Node declarations shouldn't be allowed inside classes
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5042#change-92396

* Author: Paul Berry
* Status: Accepted
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: language
* Target version: 3.x
* Affected Puppet version: 
* Keywords: 
* Branch: 
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Puppet currently allows a node to be declared inside a class.  For example:

<pre>
class foo {
  node bar {
    notice("hello")
  }
}
</pre>

This is confusing because it makes it look like the node being defined is 
called "foo::bar", when in fact it is simply "bar".

There's no good reason why a user should need to nest a node inside a class, 
and the presence of this unnecessary "feature" is complicating my efforts to 
make improvements in autoloading (e.g. feature #5041).

I propose to modify the Puppet language so that all node declarations would 
have to be at toplevel, and the above example would be classified as a syntax 
error.


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