p.s., if we do go down this path it would be interesting to see if there is
some sort of existing library or standard specification for boolean logic
expressions that we could piggy-back off of, rather than rolling our own.
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Chris Price <ch...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> 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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