On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 17:29 -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> Should the C-style selector and if/then statements have equivalent
> true/false handling? Maybe I'm setting this up wrong, but I expected
> these two to be the same:
>
> if $name[symlink] { $symlink = $name[symlink] } else
> { $symlink = undef }
> $symlink = $name[symlink] ? { true => $name[symlink], false
> => undef }
>
> Yet they don't return the same result. The if/then statement sets the
> value to false as expected, whereas the selector never matches at all
> and throws an error.
There shouldn't be any difference, except there is a known issue with
selectors and arrays:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5860
Since you're mentioning an error (which you should have included for
further analysis), I'd tend to think you're hitting this issue.
HTH,
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