Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
Is the "avoid mixing" warning out of date? Or in accord with future TAP
plans?
That dates back from the original version of Test::Builder in 2001.
Test::Harness has handled no numbers and mixing of with and without numbers for
as long as I know, but not always gracefully.
Here's the TH that shipped with 5.5.4 (TH 1.1604 or something)
$ perl -wle 'require "/usr/local/src/perl5.005_04/lib/Test/Harness.pm"; Test::Harness::runtests(@ARGV)' ~/devel/Test-Harness/t/nonumbers.t
/Users/schwern/devel/Test-Harness/t/nonumbers.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
/usr/local/src/perl5.005_04/lib/Test/Harness.pm line 118, <GEN0> line 2.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
/usr/local/src/perl5.005_04/lib/Test/Harness.pm line 118, <GEN0> line 3.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
/usr/local/src/perl5.005_04/lib/Test/Harness.pm line 118, <GEN0> line 5.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
/usr/local/src/perl5.005_04/lib/Test/Harness.pm line 118, <GEN0> line 6.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
/usr/local/src/perl5.005_04/lib/Test/Harness.pm line 118, <GEN0> line 7.
ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=6, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU)
And its possible t/TEST (the Perl core harness) didn't handle the mixing well.
Anyhow, I don't remember explicitly fixing it, must have just fixed itself.
The warning against mixing in TB can probably go away.
