Re: [Cfengine-develop] my own branch of the tree

[Bas van der Vlies]

Just my 2 cents.

When we just started the development team there was also much talking 
about the issues about the parser, lists and associative arrays (hashes 
in perl and dictionaries in python, every language has is own description).

I like the idea to have list and associative arrays. Now it depends on 
the actionsquence if a variable is interpeted as has list or a string.
So if the parser supports this kind of type it makes it much cleaner.

In the early days of the development team i had some suggestions for the
parser/lexer. It has changed and i did not touch it. It always good to 
look how other projects have done the  parser/lexer stuff. I still think 
a lot of the C-code in cfengine to check if we have supported the right 
kind of variable (eg ip-address, numbers, etc) can be done in 
lexer/parser which elminates a lot of code. But Mark is right that this 
is a lot of work, bu we have to start somewhere. If the parser/lexer is 
good then it can also be easily extended with new types and functions.

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