Re: New API call: "testsuite has api call" [renamed]

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> The proposed form is simple:  testsuite has api call <api call as words>
> As an example [testsuite has api call testsuite file] returns 1 as 
> does [testsuite has api call testsuite has api call].
>
> Test scripts are expected to use this call along the lines of:
>    if { [testsuite has api call some new command] } {
>        some new command and its args
>    }

After sitting on this for a while, I am considering renaming the new 
call to "testsuite can call api" in a simple s/has api call/can call 
api/ (well, "simple" from the caller's perspective, the renaming is a 
bit more involved).  I believe that the new name "reads better" in the 
expected use; for example:

   if { [testsuite can call api testsuite file] } { ... }
 versus
   if { [testsuite has api call testsuite file] } { ... }

Changing this seems to better express a shade of meaning:  the 
availability of an API call is a characteristic of the environment 
rather than of the testsuite itself.


-- Jacob