----- Original Message ----

> From: David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>
> To: Ovid <publiustemp-perl...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: perl-qa@perl.org
> Sent: Monday, 29 June, 2009 17:38:15
> Subject: Re: Subtest fail with singletons
> 
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Ovid wrote:
> 
> >    my $Test = Test::Builder->new;
> > 
> > If every test function simply had that line in the function, rather than 
> trying to share this across all test functions, the code would work fine.
> > 
> > Not sure of the best way of handling this, but it's annoying as heck :(
> 
> Submit a bug report for Test::XML and Test::JSON with a test case 
> demonstrating 
> the issue?


And Test::Exception and many, many other Test:: modules.  It's a very common 
pattern and getting all authors to agree to fix those modules is a dubious 
strategy, I think.

Cheers,
Ovid
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