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