puppetlabs/puppet — pull request #1538 by duritong (2013-03-20 21:42:56+00:00)
Title: Implement #18024 - alias for scope.lookupvar()

Tired of writing scope.lookupvar('foo') all over your templates? This
provides a shorthand alias for scope.lookupvar()

See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18024 for details