Re: Converting DejaGNU tests to Paul's test/assert infrastructure

[David Bateman]

Paul Kienzle wrote:

> On Oct 24, 2005, at 9:20 AM, David Bateman wrote:
>
> > However, nested functions are not permitted with Paul's test 
> > infrastructure. I haven't looked at test.m yet to see, but how 
> > complicated would it be to include nested functions in test.m?
>
>
> You should now be able to build test function blocks with the function 
> name being the name of a shared variable which will last until the end 
> of the test or until the next 'shared' block.
A further problem is the case

%!function x = a()
%! x = 2;
%!assert(a(),2);       # Test a test function with no input args
%!assert(a,2);

The first assert works, but as you used function handles to implement 
the nested functions, then "a()" works correctly but "a" gives the 
string value of the function handle rather than calling the function 
handle itself. This is compatiable behaviour. Without using function 
handles I see no other way to treat this other than adding the empty 
parenthesis in the perl script...

Regards
David.

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