# from nadim khemir
# on Sunday 02 December 2007 11:34:
>> How is "extra credit" *ever* any sort of failure?
>
>Because a TODO means that it is not done not: it might happend to be
> done but I'm not really sure, maybe I get lucky.
No, the latter is almost exactly what "todo" means. More precisely: it
might pass in some situations/platforms/days-of-week, but addressing
the case where it fails is an item on the todo list.
ok 1 # TODO blah blah blah
That looks like success.
You can't treat passing TODO tests as failures. Treat them as a
different sort of success, flag them as "unexpected" or "requires
attention" or "wibble" or whatever, but don't mark them as failures.
Ever.
Is the problem simply that we have only "PASSED" and "FAILED" to choose
from as answers? If so, fix the problem where the problem lies instead
of trying to unintuitively wedge more information into a boolean.
--Eric
--
To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
well-mannered.
--Voltaire
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