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Re: Test simplification (was Re: Dropping 5.5 support from my modules.)

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
December 4, 2007 04:48
Subject:
Re: Test simplification (was Re: Dropping 5.5 support from my modules.)
Message ID:
20071204124836.GL23703@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:04:42PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> Then there's duplication of code.  Lots and lots of tests have some variation
> on the big block of "$Is_Foo" checks.  We can safely put this into a file,
> change it to build an %Is hash and require it.  Maybe just put it into
> test.pl.  Throw in the handy tainting subroutines.

Good idea. I added this to perltodo as change 32565 so that we don't forget
it during the code freeze.

Nicholas Clark
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