Re: numeric plans - feature or symptom?

[David E. Wheeler]

On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Fergal Daly wrote:

With nesting, you can move some aspects of the plan closer to the code
(which is good) but you must always have some part of the plan far
enough away from the code so that it is not subject to the same bugs.
Ideally something like this would work
plan(3);

test1();
test2();
ok(1)

sub test1 {
 plan(2);
 ok(1)
 ok(2);
}

sub test1 {
 plan(5);
 for $i (1..5) {
   ok($i)
 }
}

But that requires some magic to detect the end of the block so it
would have to look a little different. It also requires nested TAP. In
this example plan(x) means that the total number of tests and blocks
of tests should sum to x.

Hey Fergal, check out Test::Block. It's not far from this and works  
today.

Best,

David