Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> [2009-02-18 21:55]:
>> One of the issues with that approach is Test::Builder's history
>> can't store test #2 twice. So history is lost.
>
> Shouldn’t this be fixed?
Sure, but how?
Internally, fine, it can be stored using a list of lists. But the interfaces
to the history, Test::Builder->summary() and Test::Builder->details(), both
return flat lists where $test[$num] is test $num + 1. And I really hate
mixing refs and non-refs in a list. The user has to do shenanigans like this:
for my $test (map { ref $_ ? @$_ : $_ } $tb->details) {
...
}
Which they'll forget to do.
For TB2 I'll probably remove the assumption that element N is test N+1 to
retain the flat list rather than make all the elements be refs.
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"Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information,
they are failures of design"
-- Edward Tufte
