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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes: > Bradley M Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org> writes: > > > Discussion forked into "should perl define Perl" and discussion of > > formats. I would like to comment (on this Request for Comment :) that I > > agree with Michael strategy. I think patchers should submit a test case > > along with any patches that are submitted, within reason of course. ;) > > I agree for all code changes (at least that are testable; I can think of a > few types of code changes that aren't particularly testable and probably > aren't worth testing, but I'm sure that people will understand that rules > are just rules and there are exceptions). Indeed, there are potentially patches (refactorings) where the only possible test is 'all the current tests give the same results' simply because the refactoring isn't supposed to have any effect on behaviour. -- PiersThread Previous | Thread Next