On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:54, Potozniak, Andrew wrote:
> What's stopping you from creating this global var
> and passing it in to the function whenever it is called?
Good taste. If it's going to be more convenient than Test::More's
like(), go all the way and make it more convenient.
> Or you could make the function "smart" enough as to if there
> isn't a max_chars_to_output param it looks for a certain "global
> config var" and if that's undefined it acts just like Test::More::like.
Sure, either of those are fine. I can't imagine saying "I want a
hundred characters in this test but a hundred and three in the next
test" very often.
I can imagine saying "I want a hundred characters in every test, except
for this test over here -- but I'll mark that as a special exception
right where it needs to be marked".
Oh, and putting the length variable before the test name feels wrong,
too.
Here's a wacky idea: in void context, like() behaves as normal (barring
any default limits). In scalar context:
like( $var, $regex, $name ) or diag( "No regex match!" );
set two variables of the appropriate length?
I'm not sure I like it better, but it's an idea.
-- c
