Howdy,
The test suite is considered "official" as in "everything that passes
the (completed) test suite may name itself Perl 6", and nearly all of
these files 'use Test'; However we don't ship an "official" Test.pm, nor
do we define which test functions it should contain and export by
default, nor
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> The test suite is considered "official" as in "everything that passes
> the (completed) test suite may name itself Perl 6", and nearly all of
> these files 'use Test'; However we don't ship an "official" Test.pm, nor
> do we define whic
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
And then? Spec it? Or ship a prototype Test.pm as "official"?
I think it's good to have a prototype Test.pm that we can point to as
a reference, but I don't think we need to try to designate it as being
"off
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:32:49PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> I think it's good to have a prototype Test.pm that we can point to as
>> a reference, but I don't think we need to try to designate it as being
>> "official".
>
> [...]
> 2. The Perl 6 language spec itsel
> 2. The Perl 6 language spec itself would specify a basic set of test
> routines built-in to the language, in a Test namespace
That sounds like a good idea, but it would require that the above Test
functionality be included in the automated tests... which runs the
risk of infinite recursion.
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:28:36PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
>> Has the "err" operator, as a low-precidence version of //, been removed?
>
> Yes.
>
It could be recycled as a "fuzzy Boolean", returning a fractional value
between +1 and -1, indicating the confidence with which the result is
off
I think you're thinking of the "erm" operator...
But back to "orelse" - is the only difference between "and"/"or" and
"andthen"/"orelse" the fact that the result of the lhs gets passed as
a parameter into the rhs? 'Cause I don't see the difference between
"short circuit" and "proceed on success/f
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:56:33PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: I think you're thinking of the "erm" operator...
:
: But back to "orelse" - is the only difference between "and"/"or" and
: "andthen"/"orelse" the fact that the result of the lhs gets passed as
: a parameter into the rhs? 'Cause I do
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:32 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Now a common factor to both of my proposals is that this Test.pm is
> intentionally kept as simple as possible and contains just the
> functionality needed to bootstrap the official Perl 6 test suite; if the
> official test suite doesn't
