Sorry I can't contribute to your questions, but I find your strategy interesting.

( and its a meditation, after all :)

> So, I have 50000+ tests that I want to PASS (ideally)

Not sure if I understood correctly but are you saying you started with porting the test code first?

Wouldn't it be wiser to try to test your P6 code (in case of same functionality and semantic) with your P5 test suite (using a kind of bridge maybe)? Like this keeping both test-suites in sync?

I understand that type checking doesn't make sense and that you could drop this part of the tests, but the risk of bugs in the test-suite would be reduced and you could immediately start porting.

OTOH are test-suites easier to translate because they mostly consist of "simpler" code, which could help you having a smoother transition phase. (maybe?)

Cheers Rolf

PS: Je suis Charlie!

In reply to Re: Porting (old) code to something else by LanX
in thread Porting (old) code to something else by Tux

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