Anonymous resources about bicep HOT 5 OPEN

Discussion notes from 6/10/2020:

Cons

• Error messages would have to include a generated name if identifier is omitted [@filizt]
• Can add this later [@marcre]
• Would need a generated name in symbol lists and visualization tools [@marcre]

Conclusion

Defer implementing this until more feedback advocating for it comes in.

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Commenting on this per request from @majastrz

This came up for OAM - so far we define resources that aren't referred to using the variable that gets created.

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Reactivating to discuss at team meeting.

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Adding @anthony-c-martin comment from #300

Not quite as elegant as simply not requiring it, but one option is to borrow from other programming languages to treat an identifier of _ as anonymous - e.g.

resource _ 'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces@2019-01-01' = {
...
}

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+1 There are several resources where I don't need a reference to it and would rather omit the resource identifier for clarity/readability.

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