On Thursday, October 25, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> >&exit.wrap: -> $status { $exit-args = $status; fail }
>
> Is the call to 'fail' replicating the original action of &exit?
No -- the call to fail is throwing an exception. The idea
is that the exception could then be caught in the test.
> >¬e.wrap: -> |c { $note-args = c; callsame; }
> Does this mean that the next routine in a chain (in this case `exit note ...
> `), so in fact `exit`, is called?
No -- "callsame" is calling the original "note".
> >$*ERR.^find_method('print').wrap: -> |c { True; }
> This wrap I am not so clear about. Why is `^find_method('print') needed?
Since callsame called note (above) note will still print
to stderr -- if we want to intercept this, i.e. to not print
to stderr, we can wrap the 'print' method of $*ERR.
This is just one of doing it...maybe I did more wrapping than
necessary :-) And in any case, in a test suite, some of
these wraps might have to be temporary. (so that they
don't interfere with code in the test suite)
Brian
