--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for why it'll work with TAP, with a few exceptions (exit_status, > or > whatever we decide to call it, is currently the only one), diagnostic > keys do > not effect test parsing. It's not a show stopper. At worst, a > displayer that > has been customized to do something special with a user defined key > might show > some odd output. The tests still pass and fail as before.
Except that you're telling people they can build rich clients on keys they can't depend on. > You're either going to wind up with a big list of prefixes and keys, > which is > annoying work, or you're going to break down and match on /-time$/ > and defeat > the point of prefixing. 1. Having no prefixes whatsoever allows this problem. 2. Having ambiguous prefixes which nevertheless have a recommended structure mitigates this problem. 3. Having an authority for each prefix eliminates this problem. I recommend #2 as being the most bang for the buck. #3 is far beyond the scope of what we can usefully determine at this time. #1 is merely plugging your ears and singing 'la-la-la' over and over again :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
