On 16 Mar 2007, at 04:34, Michael G Schwern wrote:
That's the situation I'm trying to avoid, I'd like TAP to stream
without
needing any sort of look-ahead. So the marker indicating "there
diagnostics
forthcoming about this test" goes on the same line as the test
itself. The
parser can know just by reading one line if there's anything
forthcoming or if
it has all the information its going to get.
OK. Makes sense. And funnily enough I think it actually makes the
parser simpler :)
I chose "#---" since most existing TAP parsers should ignore it,
backwards
compatible. The particulars of the syntax are debatable but it has
to stream.
Seems reasonable.
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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
