Feature #11411

Style Guide should recommend that variables NOT contain dashes

Added by James Turnbull 5 months ago. Updated 5 months ago.

Status:Closed Start date:12/14/2011
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:- % Done:

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Category:style guide
Target version:-
Keywords: Affected URL:
Branch:https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-docs/pull/38
Votes: 0

Description

Variables like:

$foo- $foo-bar

Are dangerous and confusing. They are allowed in several releases albeit they are going to be deprecated. In the meantime to cover us for the releases they are valid in (2.7.0 to 2.7.9) we should recommend against their use.


Related issues

duplicated by Puppet Documentation - Feature #9899: dashes and naming conventions Duplicate 10/04/2011

History

Updated by James Turnbull 5 months ago

  • Branch set to https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-docs/pull/38

Updated by Ryan Coleman 5 months ago

+1

Updated by Nick Fagerlund 5 months ago

I notice there’s a pull request. Is there PS consensus on this yet? Should I merge it?

Updated by Cody Herriges 5 months ago

  • Status changed from Needs Decision to Closed

Duplicates http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9899 and since I was working on a section similar to this but james beat me to completion I will go ahead and merge.

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