Jira (PUP-2972) Implementation of +=/-= is potentially confusing

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: Implementation of +=/-= is potentially confusing line 6 creates a variable "testing::a" in current scope (should not be allowed because you cannot do $testing::a = [1 2]) line 8 notices the local variable testing::a line 0 notices the correctly scoped variable, since it does a different lookup of the variable name no $a was ever created in this process So the problem is that += is very poorly implemented in that it simply assigns to the variable name. It does not actually alter the referenced variable in the referenced scope. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2972 Implementation of +=/-= is potentially confusing It seems to me that += and -= are more confusing than useful, and I would argue that they simply shouldn't exist. Right now (with "--parser future"), these operators implicitly create a new variable that may shadow one from an outer scope, appending/removing the RHS to the outer scope variable if it exists. If the variable has already been defined in t... 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.