# from Fergal Daly # on Friday 23 January 2009 14:20: >You seem to be saying "calculating the checksum is tedious work for a >human and should be done by a computer" but in that case all you are >checking is that Test::Builder and Test::Harness agree on the tests >they saw running.
No. That would be no_plan. >Both of these values comes from the run time >behaviour of the code and will always be the same. Comparing them >captures nothing of the author's intention vs the run time and thus >will never catch any bugs. This is true iff you limit your constructs to a static numeric plan and some arbitrary code. Without moving beyond those assumptions, we don't have anything left to discuss here. I'll be in the future. --Eric -- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --George Santayana --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------