> Ok, so that's a bit off the topic of "why use isa_ok()" but I just don't > see why people seem to object to the use of Test::More in the core Perl > tests. I can't see how it couldn't help improve the quality of the tests > while providing a standardized way to do the things that all the tests do > anyway.
Mainly it's a question of bootstrapping. Test::More is quite fancy and unless all the Perl it needs is working, you are not testing what you think you are testing. Requiring poetry before you know how to spell is unfair. Try meditating on the word "core". -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
