On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Trevor Vaughan <tvaug...@onyxpoint.com>
wrote:

> I would *love* to see something like this hit the core language, but there
> are quite a few cases where I have items that can be a Boolean, Number, or
> String (I'm still not loving needing to convert Numbers to Strings
> everywhere for consistency) so it gets difficult to use the Puppet 4
> inbuilt validators.
>

That's where Variants come in:
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.2/reference/lang_data_abstract.html#variant

Variant[Boolean, Number, String] means "must be a Boolean, a Number, or a
String", which sounds like exactly what you want.

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