Perl 6 and Test.pm's skip() function

[David E. Wheeler]

On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Ovid wrote:

> However, that's going to break if $count is a string, right?   
> Thought this might work as a heuristic for that third definition:
>
>  # Won't get called unless the string has a non-digit in it
>  multisub skip( Str $desc where { $desc ~~ /\D/ } );
>
> Thus, you could call this and it will still DWIM:
>
>  if $cond {
>      skip "3";
>  else {
>      # run three tests
>  }
>
> Obviously, not having a description is bad, but so are  
> straightjackets.

It's not worse than plain `skip()`.

> Also, I'm not comfortable with the heuristic nature of this.

What do you mean?

> I am thinking that the Perl 5 way may be better here.  We have  
> (effectively):
>
>  multisub skip(Str $desc);
>  multisub skip(Str $desc, Int $count);
>
> Otherwise, we stick with named parameters, but that's a bit odd  
> since every other function exported uses positional parameters.
>
> Thoughts?

Yeah: No named parameters, please. :-)

David