Jira (PUP-7843) The list of reserved type names known to the parser validator is incomplete

[Josh Cooper (Jira)]

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Josh Cooper commented on PUP-7843   Re: The list of reserved type names known to the parser validator is incomplete Adding them to reserved type names means they cannot be used as defined types (and I assume other places?). So currently, puppet will allow string but not array: define string() {} string { 'mystring': }   define array() {} array { 'myarray': } And puppet only complains about the array: bx puppet parser validate reserved.pp Error: Could not parse for environment production: The name: 'array' is already defined by Puppet and can not be used as the name of a 'define' _expression_. (file: /Users/josh/work/puppet/reserved.pp, line: 4, column: 1) That said, what benefit is there to defining resource type names? Making this change could break manifests, and would need to be done on a major version boundary? Is there potential type confusion if we don't reserve these type names? Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.205816.1502784101000.45626.1601408100056%40Atlassian.JIRA.