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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:47:24 Ovid wrote: > If a programmer listed '3' as their skip reason, that would be interpreted > as the number of tests to skip. Admittedly, it would be stupid for > programmers to do that (and unlikely that they would), but we shouldn't be > telling them "here's another rule to remember". *Every* time I use skip() in Perl 5, I have to remember the rule that the *description* comes first, and the the test number. I only fail to make this mistake if I've already made it within the past five minutes. Every API gives people rules to remember. Good design tries to make them *easy* to remember. Bad design gives them php.net. -- c