Ovid wrote:
> That's still pretty ad-hoc and breaks as soon as we encounter:
>
> is $delimiter, $dashes,
> '... we should have the correct delimiter: ---';
The diagnostic block ends at the next test, no matter what, so you just get an
empty diagnostic block.
ok 23 ... we should have the correct delimiter: ---
ok 24
No breakage.
> And give that I and many others being our "dependent" test names with
> "...", I could easily see a big chunk of TAP getting swallowed and
> people getting extremely confused.
I'm not sure I understand where ... in a name causes problems. The end token
is ... alone on a line which you'd have to be pretty talented to misparse.
> Indent the YAML and put it on the next line:
>
> not ok 2 'some name' # TODO or not TODO
> ---
> some: YAML
> ...
>
> Sure, we could have things hang at some point in there, as you pointed
> out, but the TAP reader, from that single line of TAP, would still have
> enough info to say whether or not the test failed. Even if it hangs
> prior to displaying diagnostics, the programmer at least can see the
> test name and number and be able to take appropriate action.
Yeah, I guess even a GUI app can just update the popup failure window, to use
my example.
