On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:39:12AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
> So I now have well over 2,000 tests for the parser, but there's a corner case 
> that's killing me.  Test::Harness handles it fine, so I'm thinking that the 
> TAP specification (and subsequent grammar) is wrong.

> Because TAP forbids unescaped hash marks in descriptions and that's how my 
> parser works, it falls down and goes boom.  Unless I hear differently, I'm 
> going to have to adjust my parser to allow them.  Otherwise I can't even 
> parse the Perl core tests, much less many different test modules on the CPAN. 
>  This is because many people are putting their descriptions after hash marks, 
> not before.

We could just fix the core.

Nicholas Clark

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