This is certainly better than the new operator but the parenthesis are a
bit strange.
Isn't the title 'default' special enough to not have the parenthesis?
If not, then I can certainly live with the parenthesis syntax better than a
new operator (though support in the syntax checkers will be most useful).
Thanks,
Trevor
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Henrik Lindberg <
henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com> wrote:
> On 2014-04-08 20:35, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>
>> So, I'm chiming in to say that I completely agree with Reid and Ashley.
>>
>> As an end user, I want to hand off code that is clear and relatively
>> easy to read. I definitely do not want magic symbols (or I would have
>> stuck with PERL).
>>
>> I'm OK with all of the concepts proposed but I would like more verbosity
>> and clarity as opposed to more 'elegance' and mystery.
>>
>>
> So, to summarize: The use of * => as an operator is not liked but the
> concept of being able to set attributes from a hash is. Unfortunately, it
> is not possible to directly allow an expression at the position in
> question, there must be a syntactical marker.
>
> As pointed out earlier, the * => was thought to read as "any_attribute =>
> from_these_values", but I totally grok if people have an allergic reaction.
>
> We can do this though:
>
> file { default: ($hash) }
>
> This works because it is impossible to have an attribute name in
> parentheses.
>
> In use:
>
> file (
> default : ($my_file_defaults + { mode => '0666' });
> '/tmp/foo': ;
> '/tmp/bar': ;
> }
>
> Is that better? No new operator, but you have to use parentheses around
> the expression.
>
> We can naturally also revert the functionality, but it seems it is liked
> conceptually.
>
>
> - henrik
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