Jira (PUP-2371) Truthiness and nullness

[Daniele Sluijters (JIRA)]

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Daniele Sluijters commented on an issue   Re: Truthiness and nullness The typical way to make them "true" (hah) booleans is to use either of require 'puppet/property/boolean' or require 'puppet/paramter/boolean' and add a , boolean => true, parent => Puppet::Parameter::Boolean to it. Unfortunately because of PUP-2368 (and I'm guessing in a few other places too) that only works when setting the property to 'true', never to 'false'. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2371 Truthiness and nullness Puppet's definition of what is truly True, False or Nil is completely insane. Now that Puppet 4 has opened up I think it's a good time to fix this, once and for all. The problem has recently hit me in Types and Providers where trying to use Boolean parameters and properties is just impossible because the RAL in a lot of places checks for truthiness ins... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.