* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-04 23:15]: > UNIVERSAL::isa and UNIVERSAL::can are examples of applying the > design principle of Report Bugs Where They Are, Not Where They > Appear.
How do you propose doing that in the general case? I am certainly interested in what technology you have invented so that computer programs can automatically debug themselves and detect the real source of any problems. > Earlier versions had one tremendous flaw in that they reported > all *potential* failures, rather than actual actionable > failures explicitly worked around. This was a huge mistake to > which I clung to stubbornly for far too long, and I've > corrected it in recent versions. However good my intentions in > maintaining that feature, the effects worked against my goals. Just in the last couple of days, David Golden reported making at least two (did I count correctly?) substantial changes to how CPAN::Reporter grades tests, in order to prevent particular classes of bogus FAILs. Isn’t that a demonstration of exactly the same care? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
