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cases you have no choice but to skip over the broken tests entirely.

The syntax and behavior is similar to a C<SKIP: BLOCK> except the
tests will be marked as failing but todo.  Test::Harness will
interpret them as passing.

=cut

sub todo_skip {
    my($why, $how_many) = @_;

    unless( defined $how_many ) {
        # $how_many can only be avoided when no_plan is in use.
        _carp "todo_skip() needs to know \$how_many tests are in the block"
          unless $Test::Builder::No_Plan;
        $how_many = 1;
    }

    for( 1..$how_many ) {
        $Test->todo_skip($why);
    }

    local $^W = 0;
    last TODO;
}

=item When do I use SKIP vs. TODO?

B<If it's something the user might not be able to do>, use SKIP.
This includes optional modules that aren't installed, running under
an OS that doesn't have some feature (like fork() or symlinks), or maybe
you need an Internet connection and one isn't available.

B<If it's something the programmer hasn't done yet>, use TODO.  This
is for any code you haven't written yet, or bugs you have yet to fix,
but want to put tests in your testing script (always a good idea).


=back

=head2 Comparison functions

Not everything is a simple eq check or regex.  There are times you
need to see if two arrays are equivalent, for instance.  For these
instances, Test::More provides a handful of useful functions.

B<NOTE> These are NOT well-tested on circular references.  Nor am I
quite sure what will happen with filehandles.

=over 4

=item B<is_deeply>

  is_deeply( $this, $that, $test_name );

Similar to is(), except that if $this and $that are hash or array
references, it does a deep comparison walking each data structure to
see if they are equivalent.  If the two structures are different, it
will display the place where they start differing.

Barrie Slaymaker's Test::Differences module provides more in-depth
functionality along these lines, and it plays well with Test::More.

B<NOTE> Display of scalar refs is not quite 100%

=cut

use vars qw(@Data_Stack);
my $DNE = bless [], 'Does::Not::Exist';
sub is_deeply {
    my($this, $that, $name) = @_;

    my $ok;
    if( !ref $this || !ref $that ) {
        $ok = $Test->is_eq($this, $that, $name);
    }
    else {
        local @Data_Stack = ();
        if( _deep_check($this, $that) ) {
            $ok = $Test->ok(1, $name);
        }
        else {
            $ok = $Test->ok(0, $name);
            $ok = $Test->diag(_format_stack(@Data_Stack));
        }
    }

    return $ok;
}

sub _format_stack {
    my(@Stack) = @_;

    my $var = '$FOO';
    my $did_arrow = 0;
    foreach my $entry (@Stack) {
        my $type = $entry->{type} || '';
        my $idx  = $entry->{'idx'};
        if( $type eq 'HASH' ) {
            $var .= "->" unless $did_arrow++;
            $var .= "{$idx}";
        }
        elsif( $type eq 'ARRAY' ) {
            $var .= "->" unless $did_arrow++;
            $var .= "[$idx]";
        }
        elsif( $type eq 'REF' ) {
            $var = "\${$var}";
        }
    }

    my @vals = @{$Stack[-1]{vals}}[0,1];
    my @vars = ();
    ($vars[0] = $var) =~ s/\$FOO/     \$got/;
    ($vars[1] = $var) =~ s/\$FOO/\$expected/;

    my $out = "Structures begin differing at:\n";
    foreach my $idx (0..$#vals) {
        my $val = $vals[$idx];
        $vals[$idx] = !defined $val ? 'undef' : 
                      $val eq $DNE  ? "Does not exist"

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sub builder {
    return Test::Builder->new;
}

=back


=head1 NOTES

Test::More is B<explicitly> tested all the way back to perl 5.004.

Test::More is thread-safe for perl 5.8.0 and up.

=head1 BUGS and CAVEATS

=over 4

=item Making your own ok()

If you are trying to extend Test::More, don't.  Use Test::Builder
instead.

=item The eq_* family has some caveats.

=item Test::Harness upgrades

no_plan and todo depend on new Test::Harness features and fixes.  If
you're going to distribute tests that use no_plan or todo your
end-users will have to upgrade Test::Harness to the latest one on
CPAN.  If you avoid no_plan and TODO tests, the stock Test::Harness
will work fine.

If you simply depend on Test::More, it's own dependencies will cause a
Test::Harness upgrade.

=back


=head1 HISTORY

This is a case of convergent evolution with Joshua Pritikin's Test
module.  I was largely unaware of its existence when I'd first
written my own ok() routines.  This module exists because I can't
figure out how to easily wedge test names into Test's interface (along
with a few other problems).

The goal here is to have a testing utility that's simple to learn,
quick to use and difficult to trip yourself up with while still
providing more flexibility than the existing Test.pm.  As such, the
names of the most common routines are kept tiny, special cases and
magic side-effects are kept to a minimum.  WYSIWYG.


=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Test::Simple> if all this confuses you and you just want to write
some tests.  You can upgrade to Test::More later (it's forward
compatible).

L<Test::Differences> for more ways to test complex data structures.
And it plays well with Test::More.

L<Test> is the old testing module.  Its main benefit is that it has
been distributed with Perl since 5.004_05.

L<Test::Harness> for details on how your test results are interpreted
by Perl.

L<Test::Unit> describes a very featureful unit testing interface.

L<Test::Inline> shows the idea of embedded testing.

L<SelfTest> is another approach to embedded testing.


=head1 AUTHORS

Michael G Schwern E<lt>schwern@pobox.comE<gt> with much inspiration
from Joshua Pritikin's Test module and lots of help from Barrie
Slaymaker, Tony Bowden, chromatic and the perl-qa gang.


=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2001 by Michael G Schwern E<lt>schwern@pobox.comE<gt>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See F<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

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