Why am I getting inconsistent results from "ok"? I have a perl script (which I use in a make test), where ok('','') fails. And if one of the arguments is the number 5, I get the following warning. "You named your test '5'. You shouldn't use numbers for your test names." This is my understanding of "ok". The ok routine accepts two arguments: the result from the current test and the expected result. An ok message is printed if the two arguments are equal; a not ok message is printed if they are different. So, I expected the ok call to succeed. I used h2xs to build the Perl extension skeleton. The resulting files are backward compatible with 5.8.3.

In reply to Understanding the Test module's "ok" subroutine by esharris

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