> #2 and #3 look similar but act differently.  Unfixable by about 16
> years.  Fine.

On that thought -- how do people feel about describing a mechanism for
extending TAP now, while there's only one large consumer of it, rather
than later, when there are (hopefully) going to be multiple disparate
users?

As well as 'ok', 'not ok', and '\d...\d+' being meaningful, should we
add something like 'version' (or 'ver')?  If it's omitted in the output
then 1.0 is assumed, which is whatever we have now.  Future additions
or changes get flagged with a new version number.

So:

   1..3
   ver 1.1
   ok 1 - Frobbed foo
   skip 2 - Skipped, using new skip syntax
   todo 3 - Todo, using new todo syntax

should it ever be decided that putting 'skip' and 'todo' markers after
a character that has had at least 25 years of being treated as a comment
marker is not necessarily a good idea...

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