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# Testing the LinkSection class
### Test the basic sanity of the link-section treelet class
use strict;
use Test::More tests => 6;
#use Pod::Simple::Debug (6);
use Pod::Simple::BlackBox; # for its pretty()
my $bare_treelet =
['B', {'pie' => 'no'},
'a',
['C', {'bzrok' => 'plip'},
'b'
],
'c'
]
;
my $treelet = Pod::Simple::LinkSection->new($bare_treelet);
# Make sure they're not the same
is ref($bare_treelet), 'ARRAY';
is ref($treelet), 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection';
print "# Testing stringification...\n";
is $treelet->stringify, 'abc'; # explicit
is join('', $treelet), 'abc'; # implicit
print "# Testing non-coreferentiality...\n";
{
my @stack = ($bare_treelet);
my $this;
while(@stack) {
$this = shift @stack;
if(ref($this || '') eq 'ARRAY') {
push @stack, splice @$this;
push @$this, ("BAD!") x 3;
} elsif(ref($this || '') eq 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection') {
push @stack, splice @$this;
push @$this, ("BAD!") x 3;
} elsif(ref($this || '') eq 'HASH') {
%$this = ();
}
}
# These will fail if $treelet and $bare_treelet are coreferential,
# since we just conspicuously nuked $bare_treelet
is $treelet->stringify, 'abc'; # explicit
is join('', $treelet), 'abc'; # implicit
}