On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:51:46PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > I'm not convinced that allowing slop in expected output is a good idea.
Sometime allow some slop is convenient, like the situation in t/examples/past.t > It introduces (more) complexity into the tests, which increases the chance > for false positives (errors in the tests reporting themselves as failures, > distracting developers) and false negatives (tests not spotting real errors) If it's abused, yes! Lee
