Agreed. This is a tool that 'ops' people should also be able to use and not require a black belt in C type casting or an understanding of the parser to figure out when a string is actually a string and will be treated as such.
On Monday, 3 November 2014 22:06:03 UTC+1, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > I know that primitives are converted by casts in may languages but most of > them (if any) would not classify string as a primitive. I think we should > refrain from this kind of "magic" since it's less clear what it will do. > Anyone familiar with C++, C# or Java will probably perceive a string cast > the same way I do. > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Joshua Hoblitt <jhob...@cpan.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On 11/03/2014 02:09 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote: >> >> >> >> (String)$my_hungarian_integer >> > I perceive this as a type cast, not a conversion, and would expect a >> > runtime exception unless $my_hungarian_integer already is a string. >> >> Welcome to the "magic" of C. The type casting syntax is both a way of >> explicitly declaring a conversion (primitives only) and a means to >> bypass type safety. The behavior is dependent on the type. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_conversion_in_C >> >> I was calling it out in conversion context. >> >> -Josh >> >> -- >> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/5457E8BD.30205%40cpan.org. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/7b05fe6d-f8f9-4838-8664-486e4fe21c00%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
