# from Ovid
# on Wednesday 21 January 2009 10:47:
> multi sub skip() is export() { proclaim(1, "# SKIP"); }
> multi sub skip($desc) is export() { proclaim(1, "# SKIP " ~
> $desc); } multi sub skip($count, $desc) is export() {
> for 1..$count {
> proclaim(1, "# SKIP " ~ $desc);
> }
> }
Passing a number of tests to skip() is an untested failure waiting to
happen.
Perhaps it is still no easy task to count the tests in a block, but
making humans count them is just asking for errors.
--Eric
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it."
--Donald Knuth
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