Re: Perl 6 Test Organization

Tanton Gibbs wrote:

>Comments on the file:
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>>TODO: Exponential
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>>1.23e1  12.3
>>1.23E2  123
>>-1.23e3 -1230
>>-1.23E4 -12300
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>I think we should add some negative exponent tests
>1.23e-1 .123  (* or is it 0.123?)
>12.34e-1 1.234
>1.23e-2 .0123 (* or is it 0.0123?)
>-1.23e-3 -0.00123
>-1.23e-4 -0.000123
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Added.

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>>TODO: Big Numbers
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>>4611686018427387904   4611686018427387904
>>1.3209583289235829340 1.3209583289235829340
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>Negative big numbers
>-4611686018427387904   -4611686018427387904
>-1.3209583289235829340 -1.3209583289235829340
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Added.

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>>TODO: Bigger Than Big Number (Infinity)
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>>Inf Inf
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>Negative Infinity
>-Inf -Inf
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Added.

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>>TODO: Binary
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>>0b0110    6
>>0B0110    6
>>-0b0110  -6
>>0b0_1_1_0 6
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>No capital B
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Woops.  I thought I saw a list message
that allowed them, my bad.

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>>TODO: Octal
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>>0c0777    511
>>0C0777    511
>>-0c0777  -511
>>0c0_7_7_7 511
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>No capital C -- is it o or c?
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Now updated to be lc(o).

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>>TODO: Hex
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>>0x00ff    255
>>0x00CC    204
>>0X00ff    255
>>0X00CC    204
>>-0x00ff  -255
>>0x0_0_f_f 255
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>No capital X
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And fixed.

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>We also might want some way of specifying a test that will cause an
>error...for example
>0b19  ERROR
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>I'm not exactly sure how to specify this, but it is often important to
>document what is not allowed along with what is allowed.
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>Tanton
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Joseph F. Ryan
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