".gist" is probably the wrong answer in this case. my @got = ‘one’, ‘two three’; say @got # OUTPUT: [one two three]
↑ Not very useful On 2017-07-25 12:52:25, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > Sometimes it is useful to test the input against regexes. Let's try: > > Code: > use Test; > cmp-ok ‘foo’, ‘~~’, /bar/, ‘Lorem ipsum.’ > > Result: > not ok 1 - Lorem ipsum. > > # Failed test 'Lorem ipsum.' > # at -e line 2 > Regex object coerced to string (please use .gist or .perl to do that) > in sub cmp-ok at /home/…/…/C712FE6969F786C9380D643DF17E85D06868219E > (Test) line 243 > # expected: '' > # matcher: 'infix:<~~>' > # got: 'foo' > > > It “works”, but it attempts to turn a regex into a Str. > > The problem is here: > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/90a0f2e09ef7a74bfb5a8295fa2737f22bd4e07f/lib/Test.pm6#L245- > L247 > > “.gist” should work better in this case, but I'm not sure if it will > affect the output significantly in other cases… > > > IRC discussion: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-07-25#i_14920983 > > > I'm using regexes a lot for whateverable tests (e.g. > https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/blob/0301ef4bd2e88536b775db219d19084c092e24ca/t/evalable.t#L84- > L88 ). Currently it is doing something completely different underneath > (due to now-fixed RT #129192), I wanted to change it to regular cmp- > ok.
