On 19 Feb 2009, at 20:01, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 18 Feb 2009, at 22:44, Michael G Schwern wrote:
The thing which most takes advantage of this is TODO tests. They send
their
failure diagnostics to STDOUT so the user is not spammed with passing
test
information.

I didn't know that...

The current behaviour also means that prove's --merge switch hides
diagnostics:

Remember Ovid and I going at it like Godzilla and Rodan over merging STDOUT
and STDERR when TH3 was being put together?


No, I wasn't there - and those who are ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it :)

--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten



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