Re: [tap] Parse error vs failure

Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> Mon, 02 February 2009 05:21 UTC

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* Ovid <publiustemp-tapx@yahoo.com> [2009-02-01 14:40]:
> Your arguments made sense, but I have a question: what does
> 'not ok 4 # SKIP' even mean? To my mind, that's a parse error
> because something has gone horribly wrong or the person writing
> the TAP producer is terribly confused.

You seem to have parsed it successfully far enough to discover
a contradiction in its meaning. In this way it seems to me that
`not ok 4 # SKIP` is different from `os9aso2kk2100#asz`, which
doesn’t mean anything at all.

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