--- On Thu, 21/8/08, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If TAP goes any further than saying "Yes, you *can* > stuff a big wad of custom > data in this ganky old potato sack, but it's ugly and > covered in spiders and > there may be a hole in the bottom, so if there's any > other way, we encourage > you to do that", I fear for the safety of my lawn, > metaphorically speaking.
That's actually all TAP will be doing. You *can* stuff that big wad of diagnostic data there in a machine-readable format, but there are two overriding concerns: 1. It's entirely optional. 2. It must not alter the interpretation of core TAP. In fact, Schwern may very well add a feature to TB2 to disable the structured diagnostics on demand (I haven't asked him, but people might want that). But at the end of the day, this is a feature people have been wanting for a long time, even if (for most cases), it's merely a case of "file, line, have, want". Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
