#1924: piraha contains code for expanding arbitrary variables --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: optional | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: Piraha --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by rhaas):
Ah so that is the syntax one is supposed to use. Yes, there is no documentation for this feature and reading the par.peg file did not make it obvious either what could be done to set variables.
So, yes, this all boils down to there not being much documentation for the syntax and features of the parameter file parser. This is not a new state of affairs, the {{{$parfile}}} feature was undocumented since its introduction (15 years ago), half of that time intentionally so.
Since this the parfile parser part of the core Cactus functionality I believe it should be very well documented and that the documentation should always be up to date.