On Feb 7, 8:03 am, Matej Cepl <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 6.2.2012 21:51, Terry Reedy wrote: > > The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a > > pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care > > about joining the unittest 'standard'. > > I don't think it is > fair:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol#External_links(orhttp://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Producersandhttp://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Consumers) > shows a lot of > producers and consumers in various programming languages.
That doesn't really disprove Terry's point. A lot of languages support Perl's regular expression syntax too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Perl-derived_regular_expressions -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list