Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework

[Bas van der Vlies]

I agree with Martin. I do not want a perl language with all kind of
special chars to tell what kind of variable it is. It make the cfengine
code less readable. I just trying it to avoid this style of programming 
;-). If we want to use arrays/list we must say that this variable is a 
list. We can invent our own language (Like Chris suggested) or use the
python style for lists (I am also a python programmer).

Andrews, Martin wrote:
> It is all academic since I am generating my cfengine files now, but I found
> the perlisms noisy. Maybe since our audience is sysadmins and they are
> mostly fluent in perl it is okay, but it is adding a lot of punctuation.
> Maybe because of my recent efforts with pythin I was thinking that you would
> define a list with something like:
>
> control:
>   myvals = [ a, b, c ]
>
> And still reference it as plain
>
> shellcommands:
>   "echo $(myvals)"
>
> Martin
> ----
> Martin Andrews
> address@hidden 
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luke A. Kanies [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:57 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Here's a homework for you all:
> > >
> > > What would the syntax of your ideal cfengine statement 
> >
> > (with loops and types
> >
> > > or whatever you want) look like?
> > >
> > > Everyone submit a couple of examples. One the the big 
> >
> > issues in language
> >
> > > design is syntax.
> >
> > Well, I'll start with arrays.  I'm going to assume at least push/pop
> > functions for manipulating them within the 'control' section. 
> > I'm also
> > going to take perl's '@' character for arrays, but not switch 
> > to '$' when
> > referring to individual members (similar to how perl 6 is 
> > supposed to be).



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