alexwebgr's solution to Hello World on the Perl 5 track

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Test suite

Solution

The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".

"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language or environment.

The objectives are simple:

Write a function that returns the string "Hello, World!".
Run the test suite and make sure that it succeeds.
Submit your solution and check it at the website.

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This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program

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hello-world.t

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Test2::V0;

use FindBin qw<$Bin>;
use lib $Bin, "$Bin/local/lib/perl5";    # Find modules in the same dir as this file.

use HelloWorld qw(hello);

plan 2;                                  # This is how many tests we expect to run.

imported_ok qw<hello> or bail_out;

# Run the 'is' sub from 'Test2::V0' with three arguments.
is(
  hello(),                               # Run the 'hello' sub imported from the module.
  'Hello, World!',                       # The expected result to compare with 'hello'.
  'Say Hi!'                              # The test description.
);

# Declare package 'HelloWorld'
package HelloWorld;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter qw<import>;
our @EXPORT_OK = qw<hello>;

sub hello {
    'Hello, World!'
}

1;

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