Jira (PUP-489) Handle += / -= with consistent semantics

[Andy Parker (JIRA)]

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Andy Parker commented on an issue   Re: Handle += / -= with consistent semantics As a note: without += for strings, the way to concatenate strings is to use string interpolation. String concatenation $a = "hi" node default { $a = "${a}ghly" notice($a) } Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-489 Handle += / -= with consistent semantics The current 4x implementation does this: * if referenced and given are numeric, do arithmetic + or - * if referenced and given are collections, do concat/merge * else fail (no string concatenation) Decide: * is this implementation ok * should string concatenation be allowed (+ is not string concat elsewhere) * Remove in favor of explicit $a = $... 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.