On Wed, 11 May 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:16:27PM +0200, Uwe Voelker wrote: >> >> Btw. the tests in t/p6rules/*.t have 'no_plan'. Should this be changed >> to reflect the correct number of tests? I have this patch ready, but I'm >> too shy to post :-) > >Feel free to correct 'no_plan'. I'll happily apply any and all >patches to the tests, and those with commit privs are welcome >to directly modify the t/p6rules/*.t files at any time. >
Speak of the devil -- I started working on more unit tests for p6rules today, starting with the things Patrick listed the other day in his PGE features update: >Newsgroups: perl.perl6.compiler,perl.perl6.internals >Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:50:57 -0500 >To: perl6-internals[at]perl.org, perl6-compiler[at]perl.org >Subject: PGE features update >Message-ID: <20050508155057.GA25186[at]pmichaud.com> >From: pmichaud[at]pobox.com (Patrick R. Michaud) > > >There have been a lot of substantial updates to the Parrot Grammar >Engine, so I figure it's a good time for a summary report. The latest >version (in the Parrot cvs trunk) now incorporates: > > - subrules > - capture aliases (named and numbered) > - the :w modifier and <?ws> subrules > - word boundaries (\b and \B) > - simple backreferences ($1, $2, $<term>, etc.) > >Also, more tests have been added to t/p6rules, but we definitely >need more. Tests are especially needed for: > - Rules specified with and without :w modifiers > - calls to subrules > - named alias captures > - numbered alias captures > - \s \S \w \W \d \D \n \N I figured this for a good opportunity to get the hang of the new rules syntax. I'm now reading S05 in detail. :) >Pm > -Dino -- .~. Dino Morelli /V\ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )\ weblog: http://categorically.net/d/blog/ ^^-^^ preferred distro: Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org
