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Re: [tap] "ok 1 description" vs "ok 1 - description"

Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> Sun, 01 February 2009 02:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tap] "ok 1 description" vs "ok 1 - description"
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Steffen Schwigon wrote:
>>> I see that the dash was meant optional for TAP. Maybe the
>>> optionality of the dash changed in TAP::Parser 3? Admittedly, I
>>> didn't try.
>> The last version of Test::Harness 2 before TAP::Parser strips the
>> dash if its there
>>
>> But earlier versions of TH2 do not.
>>
>> TAP::Parser (aka Test::Harness 3) does not strip the dash.
> 
> So it already flip-flop'ed in the short history
> 
>  TH2early (not stripped),
>  TH2late  (stripped),
>  TH3/TP   (not stripped),
> 
> ?

Yep, that's about right.  Nothing before TH2 did anything at all with the
description.


> I agree then that stripping the dash from description might not be so
> end-of-world as I initially thought.
> 
> I'm maybe one of the very few who currently depend on the exact
> descriptions but I can probably even change my evaluation tools.

Fortunately, it will be self consistent within one tool.

What are you doing with them?


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