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+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+
+  newfunction(:loadyaml, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-'ENDHEREDOC') do |args|
+    Load a YAML file containing an array, string, or hash, and return the data
+    in the corresponding native data type.
+
+    For example:
+
+        $myhash = loadyaml('/etc/puppet/data/myhash.yaml')
+    ENDHEREDOC
+
+    unless args.length == 1
+      raise Puppet::ParseError, ("loadyaml(): wrong number of arguments (#{args.length}; must be 1)")
+    end
+
+    YAML.load_file(args[0])
+
+  end
+
+end