that doesn't feel typesafe to me, notice that my predicates are all calling
different methods - my impression is that it's a lucky coincidence that
NilClass, Regexp, and String's various === operations happen to DWIM in each
of these situations.
of course, I imagine that you'll reply that it's not a coincidence, that you
and Matz painstakingly developed this to work in 1992.

~Jesse

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Markus Roberts <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jesse Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> puppet --help should show generic usage, not puppet apply's help
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Wolfe <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb |    3 +++
>>  spec/unit/util/command_line.rb  |    8 ++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
>> b/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
>> index bc870be..7c3b066 100644
>> --- a/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
>> +++ b/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
>> @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ module Puppet
>>             def self.shift_subcommand_from_argv( argv = ARGV, stdin =
>> STDIN )
>>                 if ! argv.first
>>                     "apply" unless stdin.tty? # ttys get usage info
>> +                elsif argv.first == "--help"
>> +                    # help should give you usage, not the help for
>> `puppet apply`
>> +                    nil
>>                 elsif argv.first =~ /^-|\.pp$|\.rb$/
>>                     "apply"
>>                 else
>>
>
> Why I do believe this looks like one of those "case" statements I've heard
> so much about:
>
>    case argv.first
>    when nil;                  "apply" unless stdin.tty? # ttys get usage
> info
>    when "--help";          nil # help should give you usage, not the help
> for `puppet apply`
>    when /^-|\.pp$|\.rb$/; "apply"
>    else
>
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