Ian Langworth wrote:
On 5/13/05, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I like the word "actual" much better than "got," but I agree that
swapping the order would create inconsistency.
Indeed, it's a human interface issue. Like I said, I don't think that
the order can be changed now at this point in time. Nor do I make the
mistake all that often, perhaps 0.05% of the time, but the potential is
there.
It has happened, I've been tired, and at those times I wasted more
effort than I care to admit simply because I misinterpreted what the
results were telling me. Which lead me to conclude that there is an
Edward Tufte-type problem in the way the information is presented.
Anything other than 'got' would go some of the way in disambiguating things.
I'd write a patch if I thought it had a chance of being applied, that
would let the developer choose what was desired. Something like
use Test::Simple display => traditional # implicit, by default
or
use Test::Simple display => modern
David
