Re: [tap] Octothorpe/hash "#" in descriptions?

Salve J Nilsen <sjn@pvv.org> Tue, 02 March 2010 16:58 UTC

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:37 +0100
From: Salve J Nilsen <sjn@pvv.org>
To: Ovid <publiustemp-tapx@yahoo.com>
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Salve J Nilsen said:
>
> We have four options, I think.

0) Don't care and leave it as it is. Deal with any consequences
    whenever they crop up.

> 1) Keep disallowing # in the description (breaking with established
>   practice, but perhaps gain a small simplification in the draft
>   text.)
>
> 2) Allow escaped # in the description, using the \# syntax already
>   established in the Perl community's most used testing modules.
>
> 3) Allow escaped # in the description, using some other syntax,
>   e.g. the printf(3)-like "##" way with double-characters ("%%" to
>   represent a literal "%".) This breaks with both established
>   practice and doesn't seem to give an obvious benefit otherwise.

0) is not much of an option though. :)


- Salve

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