On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 05:06:01AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Test::More 0.71 fixed a subtle bug where a call to use_ok() inside a BEGIN
> block without a plan would be silently ignored. That is...
>
> use Test::More;
>
> BEGIN { use_ok('Exporter') } # for example
>
> plan tests => 1;
> pass();
>
> would pass when it should have failed. This commonly takes the form...
>
> use Test::More;
>
> if( ...something we need isn't there... ) {
> plan skip_all => "Missing something";
> }
> else {
> plan tests => 2;
> }
>
> BEGIN { use_ok('Some::Module') }
>
> Even though the use_ok() comes after the plan() in the code, it gets run
> before because of the BEGIN block. If your code does the above, it won't work
> anymore.
>
> This has already effected two modules, and one of them is DBI.
>
Another is Cache::FastMmap.
Steve Peters
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