On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:47:17PM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Maybe Willy would considering changing the name of the matches to 'prefix' > & 'suffix' instead of 'beg' & 'end', and just keep beg/end as legacy.
It's convenient to keep short names there as they're commonly used in anonymous ACLs involving paths. Or maybe "pfx" and "sfx" ? Anyway given that they've been available for something like 10 years I'd say I don't feel much comfortable with renaming this "just" due to incompatibilities between multiple namespaces. This can get worse over time. Moreover, the Lua version already doesn't use exactly the same name as the haproxy variant. Another approach would be to have simple rules when mapping a namespace to another one. For example we could easily imagine that all "map_something" in haproxy are mapped to their exact equivalent name in Lua (thus we would have "map_end" instead of "map.end"), or that we could prefix all these words by "_" which would give "map._end" which is not much different from the haproxy keyword "map_end" and easy enough to remember. Regards, willy
