On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 16:35 +0000, Jacob Champion wrote: > On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 09:43 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > AIUI TAP consumers are supposed to ignore lines they don't understand. > > It's undefined behavior [1]:
And of course the minute I send this I notice that I've linked the v13 spec instead of the original... sorry. Assuming Perl isn't marking its tests as version 13, you are correct: > Any output line that is not a version, a plan, a test line, a > diagnostic or a bail out is considered an “unknown” line. A TAP > parser is required to not consider an unknown line as an error but > may optionally choose to capture said line and hand it to the test > harness, which may have custom behavior attached. This is to allow > for forward compatability. Test::Harness silently ignores incorrect > lines, but will become more stringent in the future. TAP::Harness > reports TAP syntax errors at the end of a test run. --Jacob
