$generate lhs problem. Manual needs to be updated.

[Alan Clegg]

Takahiro Masuda wrote:
> Yes I guess I didn't understand it totally because in the example syntax
> is shown as lhs defined at the beginning
>  *$GENERATE* /|range|/ /|lhs|/ [/|ttl|/] [/|class|/] /|type|/ /|rhs|/ [
> /|comment|/ ]
> and when you read the explanation for lhs it shows the example ${-20,3,d}.
> So I thought that ${-20,3,d} should be defined on the left side.  The
> example only shows one part. I think it'll be helpful if you add the
> whole line in the example so users can see where to place it in the syntax
> 
> $GENERATE 1-127 $ CNAME ${3,0,d}.0

But what if they actually wanted:

        $GENERATE 1-127 q${3,0,d}.m0.foo.com. A 12.1.1.$

The sample expansion is not just possible on the LHS.  It's
ambidextrous.  :)

I'm still not clear what the issue is.

AlanC

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