Hello dear esteemed monks,

Let's say I have a block function that checks several conditions and fails loudly if any of those are not met ("loudly" means carp/croak/some callback depending on per-caller settings). The names of conditions themselves follow the conventions of Test::More. This is done so to allow for moving them to a test script after good enough testing environment is available.

So the usage is as follows:

use Runtime::Test::Module;
use My::Module;

my $foo = My::Module->bloated_untestable_method;

complain_if_the_following_does_not_hold {
    like $foo->{bar}, qr/f?o?r?m?a?t/;
    can_ok $foo->{baz}, qw(do_this do_that frobnicate);
};
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My question is: how should such a function be named?

The module already has refute for checking a single condition (stressing the fact that we only can disprove things by testing). It also has a contract block function to save a set of conditions for later execution.

What I could come up with so far:

• carp_refute - but it doesn't necessarily carp!
• runtime_check - there are many other runtime checks
• refute_these - hello Benchmark, but maybe it's good
• runtime_contract - way too long, but maybe it's good

Also if there is a CPAN module for blocks of multiple runtime assertions I would love to see a link. What I've seen so far is either Test::* stuff, one-at-a-time assertions, or full-blown design by contract frameworks. But maybe I just got my keywords wrong...

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