On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Henrik Lindberg < henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com> wrote:
> On 2014-18-07 17:42, Andy Parker wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch >> <mailto:peter.me...@immerda.ch>> wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> > Can we get rid of this, it is bad enough that all other keywords >> > can be used (if, unless, case, class, define, etc. etc.) >> >> Couldn't we ban them as well? I think in most other "programming" >> languages this won't work as well. >> >> >> We tried that, accidentally, when we added some new keywords. Lots of >> things broke. In fact one of the core types uses a keyword: exec uses >> unless. >> >> Yeah, there are a few that makes sense; "class", "unless", "define", > "type", "inherits", "not" comes to mind as possibly meaningful names (there > may be others). Since that is like half of them, we could just support all > of them. The keywords true/false are different in that they produce boolean > values. There is no great harm in continuing to support them; I just find > it odd to name an attribute "true" or "false", and we already have > confusion over "false" vs. false. > > Yes, getting rid of false and true makes sense since those are literal values (like 1 is a literal integer value). > > > - henrik > > -- > > Visit my Blog "Puppet on the Edge" > http://puppet-on-the-edge.blogspot.se/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/puppet-dev/lqbg28%24oei%241%40ger.gmane.org. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Andrew Parker a...@puppetlabs.com Freenode: zaphod42 Twitter: @aparker42 Software Developer *Join us at PuppetConf 2014 <http://www.puppetconf.com/>, September 22-24 in San Francisco* *Register by May 30th to take advantage of the Early Adopter discount <http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf-early-adopter> **—**save $349!* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANhgQXsvgn_OgHs6%2BFSDDA%3D-kveYhMFSVuLsafZMeqSdp8dEZQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
