Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

James E Keenan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.quality-assurance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/11/12 12:33 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> Let me reiterate, I have no plans to *deprecate* `use_ok`.  Even if I wanted
> to there are simply too many users to make deprecation worth while.
>
> It works fine if what you want is a runtime require + import + assert, and
> sometimes you want that.  The problem is it's been overused and has come to
> replace a simple `use` in test scripts.  To that end the question is whether
> to *discourage* its use in the documentation: to scale it back from "use this
> when you load a module" to "use this for some special cases".
>
>

+1 to discouraging use_ok
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