(MODULES-1439) Adds any2bool function

[petems]

• Basically a combination of string2bool and num2bool

So there's a request for this to be added to stdlib (https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-1439).

Questions:

• Do we want to muddle the waters by the string casting to numeric part to the check? So should '-1' be true because it's a string, or false because when num2bool its false?
• There's already a any2bool as part of puppi, should we give this a different name?

[hunner]

Do we want to muddle the waters by the string casting to numeric part to the check? So should '-1' be true because it's a string, or false because when num2bool its false?

Sure, that makes it work on puppet 3 and 4 the same way.

There's already a any2bool as part of puppi, should we give this a different name?

I think that puppi's purpose is different from stdlib's purpose, so example42 can do namespacing as needed similar to when functions migrate from other modules to stdlib. Thanks for catching that!

[nibalizer]

+1

[bmjen]

Thanks @petems !

[nibalizer]

Note that we need to call out the puppi incompatibility in the changelog for the next release.

[petems]

👍

[igalic]

'off' would also be good :D