On 1 Feb 2011, at 2:02 PM, Dan Bode wrote: > I wanted to open the feature request > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5824 for discussion. > > I like to specify all dependencies not defined within the enclosed scope > using the new relationship syntax. > > This leads to nice clean error messages if the required resources have not > been declared. > > class foo ( > $bar => 'baz' > ) { > Class['foo']->Class['super-ninja-app'] > .. resources and what-not > } > > I often use this syntax to specify external dependencies of the class itself. > I am starting to use this pattern *a lot* > > Having to specify > > Class['foo']-> within class foo { } > > in less than optimal for two reasons: > 1. more characters > 2. if the name of the class changes, then the reference to the class also > needs to change > > I would like to introduce the 'self' keyword to be used in this situation.
I like this idea in theory. (I limit my statement only because we're still in the process of migrating to 2.6.x here, and my ideas about parameterized classes and how I'd like to use them are still purely theoretical.) Since the longhand syntax is already permitted, providing "Self" as shorthand doesn't seem too dangerous -- modulo keyword namespace concerns, I guess. I'm curious to hear Nigel's misgivings, though, in case I'm missing something. -- Ian Ward Comfort <[email protected]> Systems Team Lead, Academic Computing Services, Stanford University -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
