[webkit-dev] Simplifying syntax in test_expectations.txt (bug 86691)

[Dirk Pranke]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>> > -Make everything but the test name case-insensitive.
>>
>> I don't think I like this; it could lead to a lot of arbitrarily
>> different formatting in the file, making things harder to read.
>
>
> Modifiers and expectations are already case-insensitive as far as I read the
> code yesterday.
>

It may be that it's legal to mix the case, but no one does it.

>> I think we'd probably find ourselves (re-)converging on some convention
>> pretty quickly. I personally find all uppercase fairly easy to read in
>> this case since it distinguishes the modifiers from the test name.
>
>
> I think this problem will disappear once we place modifiers and expectations
> on the same side
> because then there is exactly one place those tokens could appear. There is
> no need to scan
> through a line then.
>

It's possible. As I said, having some other clear delimiter would help.

>>
>> If we have some other clear delimiter this would probably be less
>> important, in which case all lower case would be fine as well. Initial caps
>> seems less good to me.
>
>
> I find either all-lowercase or all-caps to be much harder to read than
> capitalized words. They look like a blob of letters to me.

We might have to agree to disagree here, then, but that's fine.

If there was a clear consensus that one style or another is better, we
should go with that.

> Also, I don't
> think we use all-caps name anywhere else in WebKit so it's inconsistent with
> the convention we use elsewhere.
>

I don't think this particularly matters. We should design a format
based on what is most useful in this context.

-- Dirk