Unencumbered V0.1.2: Write Cucumber step definitions in D

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 25 05:18:40 PDT 2014


On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 11:11:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 10:20:47 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 10:02:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 09:45:06 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Also when using things like __LINE__ keep them to template 
>>>> args, as they are inferred to the initiation if possible.
>>>
>>> This is antipattern. Default function arguments for __LINE__ 
>>> and __FILE__ are also evaluated at call site. Moving this to 
>>> template parameter creates huge amount of template bloat and 
>>> must be used only if there is no other way around (that 
>>> usually implies variadic arguments)
>>
>> True in this specific case it might be over the top.
>
> It was a template parameter before anyway. Also, this is for 
> acceptance/feature/integration testing, so I doubt anyone would 
> care how much bloat it generates as long as it gets the job 
> done.

It will hurt build-times, so it's worth avoiding.


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