On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Henrik Lindberg <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
I think the parenthesis are far preferable over *=>. That isn't to say I
like them - I don't particularly. But the functionality is desirable, and
if it's a matter of a technical limitation then parenthesis are a Good
Enough (TM) compromise from the more ideal direct use of a hash.
~Reid
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