I would like them kept. These are items that I often have to fall back into Ruby to use and it's nice to have them exposed. Otherwise, it's either an inline template or a custom function (doing the exact same thing).
Trevor On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Andy Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been brought to my attention that there are a number of the > functions that were added as part of the "iteration in the puppet language" > work that there isn't any kind of general agreement on their value. > > I think the list of functions in question is: > > * map > * reduce > * filter > * slice > > The use cases for each of these come down to various forms of data > manipulation. Map, for instance, can be used to place a prefix or suffix on > some, or all of the elements of a list. Filter is used when only a subset > of elements is wanted. Slice is to produce groupings of elements in a list. > Reduce is the oddest one of the bunch, it is the actual "foreach" loop that > everyone is familiar with from languages with mutable variables, but in a > very different form. > > Are these functions too much? Should they be left out? > > -- > Andrew Parker > [email protected] > Freenode: zaphod42 > Twitter: @aparker42 > Software Developer > > *Join us at PuppetConf 2014 <http://www.puppetconf.com/>, September > 22-24 in San Francisco* > *Register by May 30th to take advantage of the Early Adopter discount > <http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf-early-adopter> **—**save $349!* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANhgQXvG8Xkv9d4tDBMWeJvLk%3DffdmaCeXA4FfKm33JvvnjPPA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANhgQXvG8Xkv9d4tDBMWeJvLk%3DffdmaCeXA4FfKm33JvvnjPPA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoUWovKdEVse33L%3DLwXnJZEATTDDAcVgH%3DgpTG8H9QdYjg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
