On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:17:26PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > 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. > 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. This is actually why I thought of Map.match_str, with a potential idea that at some point it MIGHT become a bitfield for additional behaviors (eg the output types per https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.6/configuration.html#7.3.1-map).
The underscore is not sufficiently unique I think, but my knowledge of Lua is nowhere near as extensive as I'd like. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robb...@orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
