Before one of the answers above I would not have known that (3 and 4) were in list context. I didn't really think about scalar or list context as I was trying to understand how the test was working.

I don't think I had enough understanding to intend much. Since it was my first test and all previous were failing I was trying to get anything to work and then try to understand after that why it worked. What I thought was happening was that Test::Simple was looking at each value and comparing it to the return values but I couldn't really see how it was doing that.

I'm not sure I've answered your questions yet. I wonder if you're trying to teach me something and I haven't gotten it yet or my use was so out of whack your incredulous?

In reply to Re^4: Checking two scalars in Test::More $expected. It works, but is it proper? by gctaylor1
in thread Checking two scalars in Test::More $expected. It works, but is it proper? by gctaylor1

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