Re: 'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful

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Hi Lak, guys!

On Friday 26 October 2007, Luke Kanies wrote:
> Because here in Puppet-land we're all about self-reference and
> recursion, and because I actually have to give a talk at RubyConf
> next weekend about abusing self-reference, and because parent nodes
> aren't considered harmful in my own world, I give you:
>
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000982.html
>
> I think it manages to somehow be both on- and off-topic at the same
> time.

I hear you, since you yourself give the best example why my inflammatory 
subject was a bad move: I never spoke out against parent nodes per-se, but 
against "template nodes" as defined in GlossaryOfTerms?version=16 and used in 
PuppetBestPractice?version=18 , which -- as seen often on the IRC -- confuse 
the heck out of some people, due to the nature of scopes. Also the problem 
is -- as far as I am currently  concerned -- solved by the changes I made to 
the wiki.

Please accept my apologies.

Regards, David
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