brian d foy wrote: > if you're going to use a different starting character for these > messages, how about a [ ? Follow the start of the string by a real > word: > > not ok 1 > [fail] Failed test in foo.t line 2 > ok 2 > [fatal] WHOA! The fabric of the universe just broke down! > [damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a programmer!] This should never > happen! Please contact the author immediately! > > It doesn't set it off visually as nicely as the repeated bangs, but > that's not the goal here. People want to read this stuff > programmatically. :)
Well, we do want TAP to remain human readable otherwise we'd just say the hell with it and use XML or something and what a cold, hard dystopia that would be. I think something along the lines that brian suggests is the right thing. Characterized by * A visually distinctive syntactical element * A short, unique label indicating the level How about [*label*] or even just **label**? We could even say, for brevity, that no label == "notice". not ok 1 **fail** Failed test in foo.t line 2 ok 2 **pass** Some information ok 3 **** We're going to connect to the Internet now. **** Hold onto your hats! ok 4
