Issue #16116 has been updated by Nick Fagerlund.
Well, ERBs are a special case, and you can do all KINDS of horrible stuff in there, including reassigning scalar variables. :/ ---------------------------------------- Bug #16116: Arrays and hashes are mutable; new members can be added and existing values changed https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16116#change-96085 * Author: Nick Fagerlund * Status: Accepted * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: language * Target version: 3.x * Affected Puppet version: * Keywords: * Branch: ---------------------------------------- Courtesy Henrik: Puppet doesn't let you reassign variables within a given scope, but it lets you change the values of hashes and arrays by mucking with their members. That seems wrong. $myary = ['zero', 'one', 'two'] $myhash = {first => 'one', second => 'two', third => 'three'} $myary[3] = 'three' #can insert new element $myary[3] = 'something else' #can reassign notice($myary[3]) $myhash[fourth] = 'four' #can insert new element $myhash[fourth] = 'something else' #can't reassign, fails compilation notice($myhash[fourth]) $myary += ['four'] #can't append in same scope, fails compilation AND it's inconsistent, so obviously SOMETHING is whacked, even if we actually do want these objects to be mutable. I don't know what we should do about this. I think the extent to which this is being used in the wild is completely unknown. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
