[Puppet Users] Referencing a variable from one class in another

I'm not sure I fully agree with this from a design standpoint. In object-oriented programming, one of the design principles is that variables relating to the object are encapsulated within the object and exposed or not depending on how they should be accessed. IMHO, it also makes it more obfuscated when you're accessing say the SSL CA cert path variable and that's in some 'common' module that everything has to include. Granted it makes it easier on the module developer - just always in include the common module and your variables should be there - but it also makes it less explicit. I would argue, if you're writing a module that depends on using the SSL CA cert path you have some dependency on the SSL module and should have some understanding of what that module does and the ramifications of using that module, so you should explicitly include that module for that dependency. In just about every language you must include the external modules/libraries you depend on for functionality outside the standard norm. In puppet the standard norm - the stdlib.h equivalent if you will - I would consider to be facter variables. You want to use LDAP or SSL or Kerberos? You best include those modules explicitly and figure out what you can use from them - ldap.h <> ldap::params, ssl.h <> ssl::params, etc. Standardize how you create these public puppet 'headers' and use them explicitly and appropriately that way. At least that's my 2c.