Issue #22528 has been updated by Nick Fagerlund.

I'm not sure! "Since" would be useful, but it would be insufficient by itself. 
(Because we have functions that work with your current version, but only if you 
turn on experimental features.)

A simple "requires `future`" switch wouldn't work either, because we already 
have two sets of functions that require different feature sets. (The second 
only includes "lookup," as far as I know.) 

We could do like providers and make "features" for functions, but that sounds 
like too much indirection. I'd prefer to tie it to the specific `setting = 
value` pairs that the function requires. 

This also brings up the specter of maintainability -- we need something that 
does the right thing when/if the future parser becomes the current parser.

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Bug #22528: Functions that require the future parser should be concretely 
identifiable
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/22528#change-97701

* Author: Nick Fagerlund
* Status: Accepted
* Priority: Normal
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Take a look at the function reference:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.latest/function.html

There are a bunch of functions in there that will just plain explode on a stock 
Puppet 3.x install. (each, collect, etc.) This is because there's no indication 
in these functions' code that they require the future parser. 

We need an indication of this built into the function API, not only for the 
sake of documentation but also to improve error handling, etc.


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