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# from Fergal Daly
# on Friday 23 January 2009 14:20:
>You seem to be saying "calculating the checksum is tedious work for a
>human and should be done by a computer" but in that case all you are
>checking is that Test::Builder and Test::Harness agree on the tests
>they saw running.
No. That would be no_plan.
>Both of these values comes from the run time
>behaviour of the code and will always be the same. Comparing them
>captures nothing of the author's intention vs the run time and thus
>will never catch any bugs.
This is true iff you limit your constructs to a static numeric plan and
some arbitrary code. Without moving beyond those assumptions, we don't
have anything left to discuss here. I'll be in the future.
--Eric
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