At 2:43 PM +0000 3/24/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:06:40AM -0500, Clinton A. Pierce wrote:
> > But if ya can get the data in, everything works *great*. Interactive
>> mode's all working now, even a functonal INPUT statement. My TODO's are
>> down to: 1. making sure this survives more Parrot "fixes" 2. making the
>
>Dan wanted seriously stressful regression tests, didn't he? :-)
>
>[although having a known version of the interpreter running its tests as
>one of parrot's regression tests would not necessarily be that informative
>about where in parrot had just caused a failure, or whether the failure was
>a bug in the BASIC interpreter (possibly due to a misunderstanding or
>unspecified bit of parrot behaviour) or to a bug in parrot]
There's always the potential problem of the test being wrong rather
than something in the interpreter. I'd rather have large tests that
potentially need some fixing than no tests at all, though.
--
Dan
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