--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ovid wrote:
> > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Harness/lib/Test/Harness/TAP.pod implies
> > that if I want to skip all tests, I need something like this format:
> > 
> >   1..0 # SKIP why not?
> > 
> > I've also noticed that all of the Test::Harness tests which exercise this
> > behavior use '1..0', even though this is only implied, not required.
> 
> That's a mistake in the TAP document.  Its the # SKIP which is actually
> optional.

Ah, thanks!

> More to the point, "1..13 # SKIP" will break Test::Harness.  Doesn't anyone
> try these things?

There are days that I really, really hate backwards compatibility.

Thanks for the answers.

Cheers,
Ovid

--

Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/
Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/

Reply via email to