[tap] Weird thought for the day: "skip 71 - reason"

[Ovid <[e-mail]>]

One thing which bugs me about TAP is this:

  1..5
  ok 1 - some test
  ok 2 - another test
  ok 3 # skip cuz I said so
  not ok 4 # skip, skip, baby
  ok 5 -final test
 
What does a skipped "not ok" test mean? Its behaviour is undefined. This means that different parsers might implement this in different ways.  It's an obscure edge case, but with greater adoption of TAP, it might crop up.

Here's what I would like to see.

  1..5
  ok 1 - some test
  ok 2 - another test
  skip 3 - skip cuz I said so
  skip 4 - skip, skip, baby
  ok 5 -final test


In other words, you can't introduce ambiguity here.

Though this list is for ietf, those who really care about TAP are hopefully reading this.

Thoughts?  Something corresponding for TODO (less needed due to less ambiguity)?

Cheers,
Ovid--
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