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Russell Matbouli
russell-belfast-pm at futureless.org
Sun Jan 27 18:23:20 CST 2002
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:16:12AM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> In the code I was testing, the return was not as easy to pin down. it
> could have been asingle word or a phrase. Any damn string at all
> except the empty string and undef. That's why I tested those two
> conditions on the first method. If you look at the tests for the
> later methods where I know what I'm expecting back, I check for it
> explicitly.
Yes. I figured this out. My laziness was false laziness. As soon as Tony
pointed out these tests, I realised that they didn't mean much in this
context, and they were being used to test for ... more unpredictable
output as it was in Text::Echelon.
> Sorry if I confused you with that. I didn't realy explain what i was
> testing and why.
It served me right for trying to fit my square brick into the circular
hole that you'd provided :)
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