On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:57 +0200, David Landgren wrote:

> So what I *really* think about Perl's test reporting is that the results 
> are shown in the wrong order, and that it would also be better to use a 
> less ambiguous word than 'got'. 'actual' would be nice.

> #   Failed test "this is a really long name and its pretty long you see"
> #   (/Users/schwern/tmp/during.t at line 6)
> #     expected: '23'
> #       actual: '42'
> 
> Or received. Or anything. My grade three teacher drummed into my head 
> that there is always an alternative to 'got'.

+1 on "received" or "actual".  I plan to fix this in  Perl 6
Test::Builder in the near future.

-- c

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