On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:44:01AM +0200, Allison Randal wrote:
> Why the reversed order of arguments from Test::Builder.skip?
Well, it's not reversed from Perl 5's Test::Builder
=item B<SKIP: BLOCK>
SKIP: {
skip $why, $how_many if $condition;
...normal testing code goes here...
}
> It seems that:
> skip(5, 'lengthy message about reasoning')
>
> is more readable than:
>
> skip('lengthy message about reasoning', 5)
I agree. I believe that I've made this mistake before in writing tests in
Perl 5.
> Is the assumption that skipping a single test with a message is more
> common than skipping a number of tests without a message?
This is my guess too. Probably need to as Schwern to find out the original
(Perl 5) reason.
Nicholas Clark
