On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Yes, and as you surmise, I think it's one of the Schwern patches
> where this restriction is lifted. Apparently anything following 'ok'
> and the test number is now allowed.
This is a serious mistake. Restricting what gets called ok adds rigor and
prevents error messages from fouling up testing. Removing the restriction
can open a flood gate of false ok results.
> Perhaps, though I think I might rather hack the tests to perform one
> integral print and get everything on one line. It's not that '-' has
> been added to '#' in the list of allowable things, but, if I read the
> original p5p post correctly ("The restriction on what is allowed to
> follow 'ok' has been dropped."), all restrictions for comments on the
> same line as the 'ok' have been removed. Bad idea, as you indicate.
> If this stands we may have to tinker with test.com -- it's not clear
> to me at first blush how much.
We should not have to tinker with test.com since perl's regression tests
should be restrictive enough to only allow a narrow definition of an ok
test. If we let '-' through what's next? '%RMS-E-FILENOTFOUND' would that
string be ok too?
Peter Prymmer
