Re: [Perlunit-users] Died?

[Matthew A. <mc...@us...>]

Sorry for the late reply.  Been on holiday, it's a fair excuse for a
change.  8-)

I'm using the Debianised "libtest-unit-perl" v0.24-1.  (Thanks for
that Stephen, if you're listening.  There was a time when I intended
to do this myself, but then I went away from testing Perl for quite a
while.)


On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:17:33PM +0400, Dmitry Diskin wrote:

> sub test_000_scalar {
>     my $self = shift;
>     $self->assert(scalar(undef), 0);
> }

> This test faild with 'Died' message:

Assert takes a boolean and an optional error message.  The boolean
'scalar(undef)' is false, so the assertion fails.  The message is
plain '0' in this case, which is fine until the stringify method in
Test::Unit::Exception says (line 35)

    my $message = $self->text || 'Died';

...but "0" would be no more informative anyway.

> Can you explain this? Where exactly the exception is?

Does that help?


Matthew  #8-)