Re: [Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

On 2015-19-08 8:39, David Racodon wrote: Hi John, Thanks for your feedback. Actually, puppet-lint goes against this recommendation because it flags quoted resource titles containing only a variable as an issue: "string containing only a variable on line 8". Which is a different problem,

Re: [Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

Hi John, Thanks for your feedback. Actually, puppet-lint goes against this recommendation because it flags quoted resource titles containing only a variable as an issue: string containing only a variable on line 8. Regards, David RACODON Freelance QA Consultant LinkedIn

Re: [Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 9:12:53 PM UTC-5, Rich Burroughs wrote: Hi David, My guess is that this is because of the guideline in section 9.1 that all resource titles be quoted. So that is the area where it should be done for consistency. Otherwise if you have a standalone variable

Re: [Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

Thanks for your feedback Rich. David RACODON Freelance QA Consultant LinkedIn https://ch.linkedin.com/pub/david-racodon/11/62/283 | Twitter https://twitter.com/davidracodon On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Rich Burroughs r...@richburroughs.com wrote: Hi David, My guess is that this is

Re: [Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

Hi David, My guess is that this is because of the guideline in section 9.1 that all resource titles be quoted. So that is the area where it should be done for consistency. Otherwise if you have a standalone variable elsewhere in your manifest, it's not necessary to quote it. Generally the

[Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

Hi, The Puppet Language Style Guide states at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html#quoting that Variables standing by themselves should not be quoted, unless they are a resource title. So, it means that you should write: file { ${foo}: ... } instead of: file { $foo: ...