Re: [PATCH] t5608: avoid say and use skip_all for consistency

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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Carlo,
>
>> Subject : Re: [PATCH] t5608: avoid say and use skip_all for consistency
>
> It might make quite a bit of sense to add a visual indicator to "say" to
> make it clear that it is not a verb, but a function name. Otherwise
> non-native speakers such as myself (and maybe even native speakers) will
> stumble over the grammar of this sentence when trying to parse it.
>
> These would work better for me:
>
> 	t5608: avoid `say` and use `skip_all` for consistency
>
> or
>
> 	t5608: avoid say() and use skip_all() for consistency
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
>
>> Printing a message directly to stdout could affect TAP processing
>> and is not really needed, as there is a standard way to skip all
>> tests that could be used instead (including a message).
>>
>> While at it, update the message to better reflect the use of
>> booleans and get rid of the prerequisite.
>
> Makes sense. I would have added a sentence to say that _all_ three test
> cases were guarded by the very same prereq, so `skip_all` is just much
> faster and idempotent.
>
> Otherwise, the patch looks good to me.

Thanks, both.  I see a v2 has already been posted, so hopefully that
would be the final version.






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