open-mpi/mtt — pull request #407 by jsquyres (2014-10-23 17:38:19+00:00)
Title: Values.pm: allow for global @vars@ in INI files

This commit introduces new functionality: the ability to read a value from a different section. For example, if you have:

```ini
[MTT]
foo = bar

[some_other_section]
yow = @MTT:foo@
```

Then yow will properly get the value of "bar".

Prior to this commit, we already had the @foo@ kind of substitution, but if the name "foo" was not defined in the current section, the results were ill-defined, and you'll likely get a cryptic Perl "HASH(...)" kind of string back.

This commit adds the capability of specifying a section from which to get the value from -- the format is ```@section:name@```.

This commit also fixes @foo@ substitution such that if foo is not defined in the current section, @foo@ will evaluate to "" (i.e., an empty string) rather than a cryptic Perl "HASH(...)" kind of string.