I'm looking over PUP-2972, which is closely related to PUP-489, and is specified (but changeable, hence this email!) at https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-specifications/blob/master/language/expressions.md#-operator-8 and https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-specifications/blob/master/language/expressions.md#-operator
PUP-2972 has information about what I found by looking at modules from the forge and on github to see how += is being used right now. The purpose of this is to try to make += consistent with +, the behavior of + to be much more predictable, and -= is added by analogy with += existing. What I'd like to know is: * Do the semantics specified make sense? * The recommendation of PUP-2972 suggests just dropping += (and -=) because they are confusing. I'm reluctant to do that since it is already in use and has been around for a while. Is it useful to keep them around? The most notable change in functionality is that += won't work for string concatenation anymore, because + doesn't do string concatenation. Instead you'll need to use string interpolation ($a = "$a$b"). -- Andrew Parker a...@puppetlabs.com 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 puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANhgQXsf-qieFaFOoYo7WkS%2BsdeveLsBGO3pgZpsUV2o5hAjLg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
