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by ribasushi (9276) on 2009.11.26 5:05 (#71243)

A little late to the party, but aren't plan and done_testing simply orthogonal? The numeric plan would be used when you need to make sure something fired a specific number of times[1]. done_testing would be used when you simply need to know that the entire test got executed end-to-end without exiting/segfaulting somewhere in the middle[2] (exceptions would be caught by the harness as noted above).

Is there *any* conceivable reason to have to know how many tests are in fact being executed in [2]?

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[1] http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/t/storage/on_conne ct_call.t [perl.org]
[2] http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/t/resultset/is_pag ed.t [perl.org]

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