[Puppet-dev] Re: The string to number torture never stops

2014-11-01 Thread Daniele Sluijters
> > I was also bitten by this during testing and it made the thought of > converting my code to 4.0 daunting. The auto conversion also holds for the current parser, so I don't see how that's making anything different, or daunting. Essentially what it comes down to is input sanitisation. Up un

Re: [Puppet-dev] The string to number torture never stops

2014-11-01 Thread Trevor Vaughan
I was also bitten by this during testing and it made the thought of converting my code to 4.0 daunting. So, I am very much not a fan of automatic String to Number conversion. Thanks, Trevor On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Kylo Ginsberg wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:35 AM, David Schmitt

Re: [Puppet-dev] The string to number torture never stops

2014-11-01 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:35 AM, David Schmitt wrote: > On 2014-11-01 01:22, Henrik Lindberg wrote: > >> Somehow fitting, Halloween and all... for what I want to bring up. >> > > Indeed. Cross type interactions are the worst. > > Yet again someone was bit by the automatic String to Numeric conver

Re: [Puppet-dev] The string to number torture never stops

2014-11-01 Thread David Schmitt
On 2014-11-01 01:22, Henrik Lindberg wrote: Somehow fitting, Halloween and all... for what I want to bring up. Indeed. Cross type interactions are the worst. Yet again someone was bit by the automatic String to Numeric conversion that is in Puppet (and also in --parser future). The particula