RE: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-19 Thread Potozniak, Andrew
> -Original Message- > From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:03 PM > To: Potozniak, Andrew > Cc: 'chromatic'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: thinking about variable context for like() > > > On

Re: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:23:19PM -0500, Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > Is anyone going to develop this, or is all of this just > wishfull/theorhetical thinking? Boy, that sounds like a volunteer if I ever heard one! Anyhow, it looks like Test::LongString is what you want. Now say thank you to Ra

Re: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-18 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > > Is anyone going to develop this, or is all of this just > wishfull/theorhetical thinking? If someone will develop this are we going > to add it to Test::More or create a module wrapped around Test::More with > the added functionality? What is "this" feature you're re

RE: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-18 Thread Potozniak, Andrew
the "Reply-All" option) > -Original Message- > From: chromatic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:24 PM > To: Potozniak, Andrew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: thinking about variable context for like() > > > O

Re: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-17 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
FWIW, I uploaded Test::LongString 0.03 to CPAN. It implements like_string() and unlike_string(), and also : > (That's why I can imagine accepting the default length as an argument > to Test::LongString::import().)

Re: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-17 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Chromatic wrote in perl.qa : > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:54, Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > >> What's stopping you from creating this global var >> and passing it in to the function whenever it is called? > > Good taste. If it's going to be more convenient than Test::More's > like(), go all the way a

RE: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-17 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:54, Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > What's stopping you from creating this global var > and passing it in to the function whenever it is called? Good taste. If it's going to be more convenient than Test::More's like(), go all the way and make it more convenient. > Or you cou

RE: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-17 Thread Potozniak, Andrew
is the separation between your function's mechanizm and policy. Toodles, ~~Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:24 AM > To: Potozniak, Andrew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-17 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > > I would suggest something along the lines of: > > &like_html(actual_value, expected_regex, max_chars_to_output, > string_description); In fact I think that making max_chars_to_output a global configuration variable is a better option, because repeating it (if yo

RE: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-16 Thread Potozniak, Andrew
ss than or equal to max_chars_to_output if the actual_value does not match the expected_regex. That's just my 2 cents. Toodles, ~~Andrew -Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: thinkin

Re: thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-16 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Mark Stosberg wrote in perl.qa : > I'm frequently using 'like' to test $agent->content against a regular > expression. > > When I have a lot of these in a new test script and they are all > failing, I get a boatload of HTML source floating by, which > makes it tedious at times to find out what a

thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-15 Thread Mark Stosberg
I have a suggestion for "Test::More" that is especially useful with WWW::Mechanize. I'm frequently using 'like' to test $agent->content against a regular expression. When I have a lot of these in a new test script and they are all failing, I get a boatload of HTML source floating by, which ma