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On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:15 PM Karen Etheridge <perl@froods.org> wrote: > I've very occasionally used Test::More::isn't * -- and I would not mind at > all to change these uses to Test::More::isn_t or ::isnt. > When I wrapped (warped?) some Test::More functions for Test::Trap, I never even looked at Test::More::isn't (and I would have found it a pain to wrap if I had) – I just used Test::More::isnt straight. Quoth https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::More#isnt – "For those grammatical pedants out there, there's an isn't() function which is an alias of isnt()." Just an alias I'm not even using – I guess I'm not enough of a grammatical pedant to miss that apostrophe if it goes … * it isn't (ha!) actually all that useful because normally you want to know > what something *is*, and if it *isn't* a value, it isn't necessarily what > you want it to be (this is the same as why "I got an exception" is a > terrible test -- you really should check that you got the *right* > exception, as it could just as easily be "syntax error in your code" which > ought to result in a failing test) -- so uses are better off changed to > is() or perhaps like(). > Also a good point. (Grepping through my in-house code and some of my old employers' code … I haven't even used any of the Test::Trap::*_isnt methods … I guess I added it to the list of functions to wrap "just because I could" …) EirikThread Previous | Thread Next