On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:42:04AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> > Why not just explicitly return undef? It call to a function is expecting
> > a value, it's only polite to present it with a value.
> >
> > Or, always return a reference which could of course include [] -- that
> > wouldn't get squished away.
>
> Remember that check was a testing function. A testing script shouldn't
> have to rely on functions that they're testing being properly written.
> Afterall, that's the point in testing them.
This is what I meant, (but didn't quite say),
check('input', [myfunction('input')], [ qw/out1 out2 out3/ ]);
..which makes the interface to check a little more internally consistent.
Paul
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