On 2014-11-02 10:19, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
# best effort, or fail
convert_to(Number, value)
It would require changes to the lexer but another syntactic option (not
that I'm advocating it) would be C style type coercion.
(String)$my_hungarian_integer
I perceive this as a type cast, not a
On Friday, October 31, 2014 8:22:36 PM UTC-5, henrik lindberg wrote:
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Yet again someone was bit by the automatic String to Numeric conversion
that is in Puppet (and also in --parser future).
I must confess to a certain dark amusement at Puppet struggling with its
weak-typing legacy
On 11/03/2014 02:09 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
(String)$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
On 11/02/2014 05:34 PM, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
On 2014-02-11 10:19, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
On 11/01/2014 03:35 AM, David Schmitt wrote:
On 2014-11-01 01:22, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
The requirement to compare strings and numerals can also be
implemented by converting the numeral to a string
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
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:
