Arent' we in a chicken and egg situation?

Until the language and its edge cases are locked down, any JAPH you collect
now may be invalidated. 

Though it would be valid immediately for p5.

<chaim>

>>>>> "MGS" == Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

MGS> Testing code is often contrived and incomplete.  Its often optimistic,
MGS> simplistic and doesn't stress the program as much as real world code will.  It
MGS> would be best to use real world code in our regression tests, but
MGS> unfortunately it is difficult to collect code which is itself simple to test.

MGS> So it would be wonderful to have a set of real world code which stresses all
MGS> the features of Perl, but is also easy to test.  Fortunately we do.  JAPHs! 
MGS> Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of freely available small bits of test code
MGS> using almost the entire range of Perl and all with the same output!

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