Re: current namespace game plan

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:09:28 -0400, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
> 
> 
>> Could you start writing some test files with these examples? Even if
>> the tests are not passing, I find it is really useful while working on
>> something, to monitor my own progress. You could put these tests on
>> the branch(es), so that anybody can look at them. Or we could even add
>> them to mainline with KFAILs.
> 
> 
> Good idea.  I've added some tests to namespace.exp in
> carlton_dictionary-branch that demonstrate the cases that that branch
> is currently handling more-or-less correctly.  (Which, right now, is
> anonymous namespaces and functions defined in a namespace, though
> it doesn't handle either case _quite_ correctly yet.)
> 
> But I like your idea of adding a whole bunch of tests, even including
> ones that I know won't be handled correctly, and marking them to fail.
> I'll do that next.

This is also why KFAIL was added.  It was the political compromise that 
would allow us to add functional tests to a regression testsuite (you 
can't add tests that knowingly fail to a regression testsuite since a 
regression testsuite can only test functionality that works).

Andrew