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David E. Wheeler
Date:
June 30, 2009 14:03
Subject:
Re: on the perldelta (was Re: Perl 5.10.1)
Message ID:
FF9F8A5C-FD59-4D06-B38A-AA0462C7006A@kineticode.com
On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> I'm not sure, but I think it's
>
> a: publicity for "we have tests".

We could just say roughly how many assertions were added.

> b: a note that "this regression test is new, so if it fails for you,  
> and you
>   didn't see it fail on the previous version, that's not because  
> something
>   broke"

Well, it *might* be because something broke.

> It's only at the level of entire new files.

/me shrugs. I don't think most end users will really care.

Best,

David
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