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Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

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Leon Timmermans
Date:
April 10, 2012 14:59
Subject:
Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Mike Doherty <doherty@cs.dal.ca> wrote:
> I don't see any discouragement in the documentation... and what's wrong
> with use_ok to begin with?

If it fails, the module may not be loaded, or partially loaded. In
such circumstances, testing the rest of the code can give very
confusing results. It doesn't make sense to continue testing usually.

Leon
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