Aren't we, in effect, introducing another (mini, boolean) language with
this sort of proposal, though? I agree that the generality and flexibility
is appealing, but the idea of designing and supporting another parser /
lexer gives me pause.
Not to say that the benefits might not be worthwhile... just seems like a
big leap to take.
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Luke Kanies <l...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Pieter van de Bruggen wrote:
> >
> > […]
> > At the risk of getting booed off, what of this as a syntax?
> >
> > class users::resources {
> > resources { 'user':
> > purge => true,
> > unless => 'uid < 10000 OR uid > 20000';
> > }
> > }
> >
> > This seems to be a more flexible syntax over a wider range of properties
> and values, with the tradeoff of requiring a bit more effort and
> explanation to use. Thoughts?
>
> I do like the more general syntax - and it's something that's been asked
> for a lot. I know there's at least one ticket about this.
>
> The counterpoint to your proposal is that there's working code for the
> other one, so we might ourselves rejecting a patch and instead doing
> nothing.
>
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