RE: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework

[Andrews, Martin]

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
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Martin Andrews
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> -----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).