On 2014-04-08 20:35, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
So, I'm chiming in to say that I completely agree with Reid and Ashley.
As an end user, I want to hand off code that is clear and relatively
easy to read. I definitely do not want magic symbols (or I would have
stuck with PERL).
I'm OK with all of the concepts proposed but I would like more verbosity
and clarity as opposed to more 'elegance' and mystery.
So, to summarize: The use of * => as an operator is not liked but the
concept of being able to set attributes from a hash is. Unfortunately,
it is not possible to directly allow an expression at the position in
question, there must be a syntactical marker.
As pointed out earlier, the * => was thought to read as "any_attribute
=> from_these_values", but I totally grok if people have an allergic
reaction.
We can do this though:
file { default: ($hash) }
This works because it is impossible to have an attribute name in
parentheses.
In use:
file (
default : ($my_file_defaults + { mode => '0666' });
'/tmp/foo': ;
'/tmp/bar': ;
}
Is that better? No new operator, but you have to use parentheses around
the expression.
We can naturally also revert the functionality, but it seems it is liked
conceptually.
- henrik
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