Mark Fowler wrote: > > On 16 Mar 2007, at 02:52, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> That should be this: >> >> 1..5 >> ok 1 >> ok 2 #--- >> - >> fnurk: skib >> ponk: gleeb >> - >> bar: krup >> foo: plink >> ... >> ok 3 > > Isn't that putting schematically important info in the comment (the -- > of the #). I know we already do it for TODO, but I thought the general > idea is that all stuff in comments was meant to be essentially > unparseable by TAP. > > Tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree here (and then record the > decision in the wiki)
Comments are lines which start with a #. TAP doesn't have trailing comments like Perl does. "ok 2 # word" indicates a directive. If I was designing it today I wouldn't have chosen # to be the directive token, but that's what it is.