passing a regex as a class parameter

[Christopher Wood]

A little oddity I stumbled across while getting things wrong about somebody's pastebin entry in #puppet on freenode.

This thing:

class classname (
Regexp $param,
) {
notice('yes')
}

class { 'classname':
param => /^.$/,
}

Does this with puppet 4.10.2:

$ puppet apply /tmp/z.pp
Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Class[Classname]: parameter 'param' expects a Regexp value, got String at /tmp/z.pp:7:1 on node cwl.me.com

Am I even supposed to be able to pass a Regexp to a class?

[Christopher Wood]

After more discussion in #puppet on freenode, this thing:

https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-7735

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[Henrik Lindberg]

Short answer: Not without turning on experimental feature using the
setting --rich_data. I noticed you filed a ticket for this and I
provided more information there
(https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-7735)

- henrik
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