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

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: access operation vs. liststart causes confusing errors... That way, the ambiguity is never triggered, you have to make the grammar end up in a context where there is a choice between using a single _expression_, and multiple Expressions. This example shows the difference: # x.pp require 'stdlib' $x = [[1,2,3],4,5] notice if true { flatten($x)[0] } notice if true { flatten($x) [0] } Before the change it prints 1 for both cases, and after the change, it prints [0] for the second. (One could argue that it should treat the case of flatten($x [0]) as an error for the sake of consistency, but that is a follow up issue.) 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.