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NAME

Test::Unit::Assertion::CodeRef - A delayed evaluation assertion using a Coderef

SYNOPSIS

require Test::Unit::Assertion::CodeRef;

my $assert_eq =
  Test::Unit::Assertion::CodeRef->new(sub {
    $_[0] eq $_[1] || die "Expected '$_[0]', got '$_[1]'\n"
  });

$assert_eq->do_assertion('foo', 'bar');

Although this is how you'd use Test::Unit::Assertion::CodeRef directly, it is more usually used indirectly via Test::Unit::Test::assert, which instantiates a Test::Unit::Assertion::CodeRef when passed a Coderef as its first argument.

IMPLEMENTS

Test::Unit::Assertion::CodeRef implements the Test::Unit::Assertion interface, which means it can be plugged into the Test::Unit::TestCase and friends' assert method with no ill effects.

DESCRIPTION

This class is used by the framework to allow us to do assertions in a 'functional' manner. It is typically used generated automagically in code like:

$self->assert(sub {$_[0] == $_[1] || die "Expected $_[0], got $_[1]"},
              1, 2);

(Note that if Damian Conway's Perl6 RFC for currying ever comes to pass then we'll be able to do this as:

$self->assert(^1 == ^2 || die "Expected ^1, got ^2", 1, 2)

which will be nice...)

If you have a working B::Deparse installed with your perl installation then, if an assertion fails, you'll see a listing of the decompiled coderef (which will be sadly devoid of comments, but should still be useful)

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2001 Piers Cawley <pdcawley@iterative-software.com>.

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

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