Jira (PUP-4705) RFC: Locally-scoped blocks

[Greg Larkin (JIRA)]

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Greg Larkin created an issue   Puppet / PUP-4705 RFC: Locally-scoped blocks Issue Type: New Feature Assignee: Unassigned Components: Language Created: 2015/06/05 3:27 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Greg Larkin In C (and other) programming languages, locally-scoped blocks are useful for overriding some behavior in a small area of a source code file, as seen here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Programming_Languages/Scoping_with_Blocks The Puppet DSL does not appear to suppose this construct, and I thought it might be useful for something like this: class myclass { # Class-scope resource default File { ensure => file, mode => '0644', }   { # Local-scope resource default - to be combined with class-scope resource default File { owner => 'oracle', group => 'oracle', }   # list of file resources to manage files owned by the 'oracle/oracle' user # ... # ... }   { # Local-scope resource default - to be combined with class-scope resource default File { owner => 'root', group => 'root', }   # list of file resources to manage files owned by the 'root/root' user # ... # ... } } This is just one potential use case, and others would include the use of variables within these arbitrary scope blocks. I'm interested to know if anyone else thinks this would be useful or not. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d) -- 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.