On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:46:38 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > OTOH, my thinking recently is that the explicit plan has become obsolescent. > [1] > > The explicit plan protects against: > > 1. Your test dying. > 2. Your test not printing tests to STDOUT > 3. Exiting early via exit(). > > #1 and #2 are protected by other implicit mechanisms in Test::Builder. #3 > will be protected against by overriding CORE::exit in a future version.
4. Running too many tests (see File::Find escaping from $topdir on Mac OS 9). > [1] This thinking makes me nervous, so I'm open to someone convincing me > otherwise. I'd keep it as the non-default. It's nice to be able to specify exactly N tests, with the test suite catching that. If it's optional, that's fine. I'd miss it if it were completely gone. -- c
