Re: Perl and Emacs: Developing tests for progmodes

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

haj@posteo.de (Harald Jörg) writes:

> Stefan (Monnier) already committed this as a patch (7a7847d7ad5;
> Fri Aug 14) :)

I was referring to my separate patch, now committed in 754a2f11b8.
Sorry for being unclear.

> My recent addition to the tests (fb26dc13: cperl-mode: Delete a
> misleading comment, add tests for verification; Mon Oct 19) shows
> another issue: The test (fontification of \$") makes sense for both
> cperl-mode and perl-mode.  In cperl-mode, the fontification was fixed in
> 1997 (I think), in perl-mode it is still wrong.  I'm not deep enough in
> either of the modes (yet) to figure out what to do to fix this in
> perl-mode, so I decided to only run the test for cperl-mode.
>
> Finally, perl-mode comes with its own list of ancient open bugs, many of
> those don't occur in cperl-mode.  I wonder whether the authors of these
> bugs would accept "use cperl-mode instead" as a workaround?
>
> At some time, it might make sense to merge those two modes into one.
> Perl continues to evolve, and upgrading two modes to support that
> doesn't seem to be an economic use of time.

Some interesting points.  I'm interested to hear what others have to
say about them.