Re: RFC: Test::ManyParams

2002-08-02 Thread Janek Schleicher
Tels wrote at Sat, 03 Aug 2002 00:25:54 +0200: > te@null:~> perl -e 'print rand(),"\n"' > 0.159625336368666 > te@null:~> perl -e 'print rand(),"\n"' > 0.292230773325176 > te@null:~> perl -e 'print rand(),"\n"' > 0.708889858870865 > te@null:~> > > This means perl does something like srand(rand())

Re: Thoughts from TPC: Testing perlguts with Inline::C

2002-08-02 Thread Tim Jenness
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > More chronicles of brainstorming from TPC. > > Last year at TPC, Hugo asked for ideas about testing the internal C > functions of Perl. Testing perl itself is ok, but if we can test at an even > finer grained level of the C API many bugs can be mor

Thoughts from TPC: Testing perlguts with Inline::C

2002-08-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
More chronicles of brainstorming from TPC. Last year at TPC, Hugo asked for ideas about testing the internal C functions of Perl. Testing perl itself is ok, but if we can test at an even finer grained level of the C API many bugs can be more easily caught. Additionally the documentation will be

Re: RFC: Test::ManyParams

2002-08-02 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 02-Aug-02 Janek Schleicher carved into stone: > Nicholas Clark wrote at Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:06:47 +0200: > Very elegant. > I'll follow that way. > [Allthough, I believe I'll take a syntax like > > use Test::ManyParams;# like srand(0)

Re: RFC: Test::ManyParams

2002-08-02 Thread Janek Schleicher
Nicholas Clark wrote at Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:06:47 +0200: >> srand could be our friend. > > Which is how I'm doing it at work now. > I call srand with a random number. (I'm getting mine from /dev/urandom, > but I suspect that calling rand() and using that to prime srand will > achieve sufficient

Re: RFC: Test::ManyParams

2002-08-02 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 02-Aug-02 Nicholas Clark carved into stone: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:16:17AM +0200, Janek Schleicher wrote: >> Ilya Martynov wrote at Fri, 02 Aug 2002 07:42:44 +0200: >> >> >> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:52:17 +0200, Janek Schleicher >> >> <[EM

Re: RFC: Test::ManyParams

2002-08-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:16:17AM +0200, Janek Schleicher wrote: > Ilya Martynov wrote at Fri, 02 Aug 2002 07:42:44 +0200: > > >> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:52:17 +0200, Janek Schleicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > > > > JS> [..snip..] > > > > JS> Thinking in general, > > JS> there could be