Matching a prefix in huntgroups file

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

> On Nov 9, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 09/11/2016 16:30, Alan DeKok wrote:
> 
>> For the second example, you have to guess that the LHS is a CIDR?
>> Parsing random strings *correctly* is hard.
> 
> No absolutely not. Magic typing is the work of the devil. You force the author to cast an untyped LHS and bomb out if the cast fails - at compile time for constants, runtime for dynamics:
> 
> if ('10.254.0.0/16'::ipaddress contains &NAS-IP-Address)
> 
> if (&Tmp-String-0::ipaddress ...)
> 
> OT: remind me why & is now a thing in front of unlang attribute names, as opposed to defining barewords as attributes?

Because barewords were also used for enumeration values and the ambiguity was annoying.

-Arran

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