Jira (PUP-2288) access operation vs. liststart causes confusing errors...

[Kurt Wall (JIRA)]

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Kurt Wall commented on an issue   Re: access operation vs. liststart causes confusing errors... I am unable to verify this at SHA=93ffdd63d59956105bf193b253e75e7ec918066a: # x.pp require 'stdlib' $x = [[1,2,3],4,5] notice( flatten( $x )) notice( flatten( $x[0] )) notice( flatten( $x [0] )) $ puppet apply x.pp Notice: Scope(Class[main]): 1 2 3 4 5 Notice: Scope(Class[main]): 1 2 3 Notice: Scope(Class[main]): 1 2 3 Notice: Compiled catalog for breve.localdomain in environment production in 0.04 seconds Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.11 seconds I expected the third statement to complain about flatten expecting an array argument, not to display the value at $x[0]. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2288 access operation vs. liststart causes confusing errors... We have seen this issue before when a name is followed by a '[', there must be no space before the '[' to make it into an access operation, everywhere else that does not matter. This was however only fixed for NAME tokens. For everything else it does not matter how much whitespace there is between the preceding token and the LBRACK (even newlines), it ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.