On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:22:38PM -0500, barries wrote:
> > my $ref = {};
> > expect( $ref, "$ref" );
> >
> > They are not the same. Its not uncommon to accidentally stringify a
> > reference, and I'd like to catch that.
>
> I think this is unstable magic: if you're counting on stringification
> it'll take a crapper.
Yeah, that is the trick isn't it. And checking to see if a module
overloads strinfity and doing a special case for that is adding a
special case... something we're trying to avoid.
Ok, make it simple.
> especially if you can detect old-style ok() calls and give a helpful
> suggestion like "did you forget to convert from Test::ok to
> Testing::ok", as perl does in some other cases.
How can you tell? Testing::ok() nromally takes two arguments, so does
Test::ok(). And they look similar.
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