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Re: numeric plans - feature or symptom?

From:
David E. Wheeler
Date:
January 22, 2009 13:15
Subject:
Re: numeric plans - feature or symptom?
Message ID:
ED6785DF-5A08-4AE5-A2A9-829E62DE297C@kineticode.com
On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Fergal Daly wrote:

> Assuming the static analysis was correct, it would always produce the
> correct number thus would be equivalent to no_plan. For me, the
> purpose of the plan is not to detect failures that cause early exits -
> it can do that but the test harness also looks at exit codes etc. The
> purpose of the plan is to ensure that the test I just added really do
> run.

Great points, Fergal, thanks.

> I am not terribly happy with plans as they currently exist, loops make
> them a bit of a pain, I'd really like to be able to have blocks with
> subplans etc to ease that but I'm not going to start on that again.

Test::Class helps a lot with this.

Best,

David

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