| Pros and cons |  Easy to understand
 The hard-coded simp_ prefix would make transitioning ownership of a module to another organization awkward.
| Easy to understand May run into issues if <module_name> corresponds to a fact with an underscore | Minimizes risk of conflicts with any system fact value Kind of strange syntactically (but not incorrect) | VERY unlikely to conflict with anything The hyphen is a non-idiomatic character for fact names Facts using this can't be accessed in classic $::fact_name format Facter and Puppet (via $facts[]) accept this syntax , but there may be weird edge cases or tools that don't Puppet recommends not making facts that are not valid puppet variable names since the behavior will be non-deterministic. |
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