-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin,
On Friday 11 February 2005 21:08, David H. Adler wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:28:30PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: > > And here are the fruits of my application of IO::Capture: a module > > with three subroutines which have proven useful in the project I'm > > working on for my day job. > > > > The full module is here: > > http://mysite.verizon.net/jkeen/perl/modules/misc/TestAuxiliary-0.01. > >tar.gz > > > > Here is the SYNOPSIS, which includes simple examples of each > > function: > > > > use Test::More qw(no_plan); > > use IO::Capture::Stdout; > > use TestAuxiliary qw( > > verify_number_lines > > verify_number_matches > > get_matches > > ); > > > > $capture = IO::Capture::Stdout->new(); > > $capture->start(); > > print_greek(); > > $capture->stop(); > > is(verify_number_lines($capture), 4, > > "number of screen lines printed is correct"); > > A question: is there any reason that you made this an OO module but > still show calls to the methods as functions rather than methods on the > object? > > I.e. why C<verify_number_lines($capture)> rather than > C<$capture->verify_number_lines> ? This would also remove the need to > explicitly export those functions. > > Just askin'. :-) In similiar line of thought: Why "verify_number_lines" instead of the (much shorter :) "lines"? "Speaking source code" is something I like, but it shouldn't gabble on :) Oh, and why "TestAuxiliary" and not "Test::Auxiliary"? (Auxiliary is also a very tough word for non-native speakers - I am bound to misspell it forever :) Best wishes, Tels - -- Signed on Fri Feb 11 21:18:47 2005 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~hstamm/beweis.html - Nützliche Beweismethoden für jeden Tag -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQg0UKHcLPEOTuEwVAQFOQQf7BXJ/iUjwxYUTj6m15C50Xwma+EqpXu2H 8acuKcKJh5iNyuCBaDePSjzza+n8UstlfhvK3P+kEzdoN2mTiTtSIXFIvMpR2nSw Y9FNkAIORkDvsn30jmdNUXnbbF+LtINP1ryTV6jMrIAA43t44S/hgY4Jo7zt8BQL H21FiEQbfRNe/0ZaYLvfO+nFtdqMjKyEjSv00ZzQxkGqz94OmEtkRLQBbLZiOyKi /bn3zzZhH1PA+UOkDtRtx5nCzmlWvObwvARNTm6mwrypxf/tLwnzcja0FwW57pZp U+nfMPlmD0GFpX3ihjK8eB7SdouHlZlAZ5UUQGfLfYBEfpwrD/0B1A== =eIuR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
