I'm running into alot of problems with this:
use Test::Simple tests => 42;
The problem is, Test::Simple expects you to specify the number of
tests when you load it and thus *at your script's compile time*. It
also means that the '1..N' line is printed at compile time. This has
the awful side-effect of "perl -cw test.pl" printing out the 1..N.
I also have to do some very careful hacks when testing Test::Simple to
make sure I don't accidentally trip this behavior. Test::More, and
other wrappers around Test::Simple, must also be very careful around
it. "use Test::Simple" without a plan is currently an error.
The original intention was to make it very obvious that you have to
declare your tests and to make them occur at compile time (before you
load any modules). I think its just too much trouble (and not nearly
simple enough) and I'm considering splitting this off into a seperate
function a la Test.pm's plan().
use Test::Simple;
plan tests => 42;
while leaving the current interface in place.
Just bouncing the idea out there. Thoughts?
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