On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 7:38:09 PM UTC-6, Matthew Walster wrote: > > There seems to be a little ambiguity in the documentation for the future > parser, I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me -- I'm > referencing > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/experiments_future.html > : > > "Variable names may not contain capital letters. They are limited to > lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores." > > My interpretation of this in the past (future parser in 3.7) is: > > cheesecurds: YES > cheeseCurds: YES > CheeseCurds: NO > CHEESECURDS: NO > > However, a colleague of mine has understood this to be: > > cheesecurds: YES > cheeseCurds: NO > CheeseCurds: NO > CHEESECURDS: NO > > Would someone like to enlighten me as to which is correct? > > I don't think there's any room to interpret "may not contain capital letters" and "limited to lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores" as "may contain capital letters at some positions". If some version of Puppet happens to accept 'cheeseCurds' as a variable name then that's at best an undocumented behavior and at worst a bug. Inasmuch as the documentation indicates that such names are not allowed, it is unreasonable to expect Puppet to continue accepting them, or even for release notes to warn in the event that it stops accepting them.
Even if you think the documentation is less plain and clear than it seems to me, why take the risk of writing Puppet code whose validity is subject to uncertain interpretation? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/a162ca8d-54b4-4d20-b4db-bcce7e9ff383%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
