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Re: Do we need subtests in TAP?

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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
October 29, 2011 01:18
Subject:
Re: Do we need subtests in TAP?
Message ID:
4EABB6BE.5070800@pobox.com
On 2011.10.28 12:23 AM, Ovid wrote:
> Echo chamber alert: I've often seen long discussions on this list ignore
> the "real world" (though often for good reason). In this case, it sounds
> like there's a consideration of removing a feature from TAP.

No, not removing from TAP but removing support for producing it from
Test::Builder.


> I also find subtests so incredibly
> convenient and opens up so many possibilities that I would hate to lose them
> (and I use them a lot).

Do you find *blocks with their own name and plan* convenient, or subtests
which have their own separate test state (as currently implemented)?


-- 
"Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information,
 they are failures of design"
    -- Edward Tufte

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