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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-5.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">I’m considering adding a function which takes a list and returns the first<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-5.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">non-null, non-empty value in that list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-5.25pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">So you could do EG:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> some_thing:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> config:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> ControlVIP:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> first_nonnull:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> - {get_param: ControlVIP}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">I’m open to other names, EG “some”, “or”, “fallback_list” etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Steve Hardy suggested building this into get_attr or Fn::Select. My feeling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">is that those each do one job well right now, I’m happy to take a steer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">What do you think please?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Alexis (lxsli)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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