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

[Ovid]

----- Original Message ----

> From: chromatic <chromatic at wgz.org>

> *Every* time I use skip() in Perl 5, I have to remember the rule that the 
> *description* comes first, and the the test number.  I only fail to make this 
> mistake if I've already made it within the past five minutes.

Agreed.  I'm bitten by this a lot myself.  Now that I think about it, the only reason we have this:

  multisub skip(Str $reason);

... is because we want a default value of 1 for the number of tests to skip. Eliminate that default and the entire problem goes away.  You must *always* specify the number of tests to skip.  $reason is optional.

Sound good?

 
Cheers,
Ovid
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