[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#513320: Acknowledgement (arithmetic expression fails to work)

[Jayen Ashar]

upgrading from 0.24.6 to 0.24.7-2 seems to fix this bug

Jayen Ashar wrote:
> I changed it again:
>         def evaluate(scope)
>         file = File.open("/tmp/puppet_debug.txt","a")
>             # evaluate the operands, should return a boolean value
>             lval = @lval.safeevaluate(scope)
>             rval = @rval.safeevaluate(scope)
>         file.puts rval.class
>         file.puts rval.is_a?(String)
> 
> yields:
> String
> false
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> Jayen Ashar wrote:
>> some more odd outputs:
>> 271
>>  >
>> 1274
>> true
>>
>> 0
>> ==
>> 0
>> false
>>
>>
>> Jayen Ashar wrote:
>>> I added this to comparison_operator.rb:
>>>                 file = File.open("/tmp/puppet_debug.txt","a")
>>>                 file.puts lval
>>>                 file.puts operator
>>>                 file.puts rval
>>>             retval = lval.send(@operator,rval)
>>>             file.puts retval
>>>             return retval
>>>
>>> and the output I got was:
>>> 10170
>>>  >
>>> 1274
>>> false
>>>
>>> I can only assume this is doing a string comparison.
>>>
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