Interview at Lang.NEXT

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 5 11:43:28 PDT 2014


On 6/5/2014 6:31 AM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>      But when it comes to tests, it's very convenient to just be able to fake
> any object by slapping some dummy functions in between curly braces.  For
> example if I want a fake "IWidthHaver" instance, I just have to write x = {
> width: 10 }, and I'm done.  Plus I can monkey patch things in tests, replacing
> whatever method I want with a wrapper that does some custom monitoring before or
> after calling the real method.  Writing tests for C++ is a pain in the butt in
> comparison.

It's an interesting observation. It is why the functions in Warp are nearly all 
templates - so I can slap together dummy objects to unittest those functions.



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