On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:32:22PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I can come up with one example where this might be interesting. Imagine you > are a software tester and were tasked with identifying all potential > variable combinations that needed to be covered/tested. Risk mitigation, > dontchaknow.
Getting more and more off topic, it could, and probably should, be argued that this that this problem should be solved by your coverage tool. Especially given something like condition coverage in a language like perl which provides short-circuiting operators. And then you've got static (or hopefully not so static) analysis to determine how one variable might be constrained by another. Though this line of thought in a language as difficult to reason about as perl rapidly leads towards wanting to solve the halting problem. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
