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:
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>
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
On 11/03/2014 02:09 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
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>> (String)$my_hungarian_integer
> I perceive this as a type cast, not a conversion, and would expect a
> runtime exception unless $my_hungarian_integer already is a string.
Welcome to the "magic" of C. The type casting syntax is both a way of
exp
On 2014-11-02 10:19, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
# best effort, or fail
convert_to(Number, value)
It would require changes to the lexer but another syntactic option (not
that I'm advocating it) would be C style type coercion.
(String)$my_hungarian_integer
I perceive this as a type cast, not a conve
On 11/01/2014 03:35 AM, David Schmitt wrote:
> On 2014-11-01 01:22, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
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> The requirement to compare strings and numerals can also be
> implemented by converting the numeral to a string (using a canoical
> non-locale dependent format). This produces a much safer route, as
> cre
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
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:35 AM, David Schmitt wrote:
> On 2014-11-01 01:22, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
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>> 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
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
F.Zappa - excerpt from "The Torture Never Stops":
"Flies all green and buzzin'
In the dungeon of despair
Who are all those people
That he's locked away down there
Are they crazy
Are they sainted
Are they zeros someone painted
That had never been explained
Since at first it was created
Bu
