1 files changed, 12 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/ast/astarray.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/ast/astarray.rb
index 529998e3c..7283a1f6c 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/ast/astarray.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/ast/astarray.rb
@@ -16,25 +16,20 @@ class Puppet::Parser::AST
 
     # Evaluate our children.
     def evaluate(scope)
-      # Make a new array, so we don't have to deal with the details of
-      # flattening and such
-      items = []
-
-      # First clean out any AST::ASTArrays
-      @children.each { |child|
-        if child.instance_of?(AST::ASTArray)
-          child.each do |ac|
-            items << ac
+      result = []
+      @children.each do |child|
+        # Skip things that respond to :instantiate (classes, nodes,
+        # and definitions), because they have already been
+        # instantiated.
+        if !child.respond_to?(:instantiate)
+          item = child.safeevaluate(scope)
+          if !item.nil?
+            # nil values are implicitly removed.
+            result.push(item)
           end
-        else
-          items << child
         end
-      }
-
-      rets = items.flatten.collect { |child|
-        child.safeevaluate(scope)
-      }
-      rets.reject { |o| o.nil? }
+      end
+      result
     end
 
     def push(*ary)
@@ -52,10 +47,4 @@ class Puppet::Parser::AST
       "[" + @children.collect { |c| c.to_s }.join(', ') + "]"
     end
   end
-
-  # A simple container class, containing the parameters for an object.
-  # Used for abstracting the grammar declarations.  Basically unnecessary
-  # except that I kept finding bugs because I had too many arrays that
-  # meant completely different things.
-  class ResourceInstance < ASTArray; end
 end