Still curious - perhaps you can explain more about why you think this is
useful thing.
it's useful to me because I say it is. personally I don't feel the need
to defend something many people would like to see this like we're being
forced to here. schwern has a valid point in not wanting to lose
diagnostics upon implementing this feature, but outside of that it
wastes too many cycles going back and forth like this over what is a
pretty minimal feature.
as for the diagnostics bit, it seems like the root cause of this is that
the diagnostics functionality is separated from the comparison
functionality in T::B in each of the different comparison subroutines.
I think if ok() were to accept a diagnostic callback as a final argument
things might work as we'd like. that is, instead of
$self->ok($test, $name);
$self->_is_diag($got, 'eq', $expect) unless $test;
return $test;
we'd have
$self->ok($test, $name, sub { $self->_is_diag($got, 'eq', $expect) });
return $test;
and then the bailout logic could include diagnostics before quitting. at
least for the functionality I'd most like to see - ovid has something
similar but different in mind, so that would probably need a different
approach.
or somesuch :)
--Geoff
