automatically verifying code samples in phobos docs

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 19 17:09:12 PDT 2015


On 08/20/2015 02:02 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 00:00:55 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 08/20/2015 01:41 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW I don't know why you can't convert a char[] to string - seems
>>> harmless enough conversion that way around.
>>
>> It would need to allocate a new string, otherwise, one would be able
>> to modify the contents of the immutable string via the char[] reference.
>
> and you don't want sneaky allocations creeping in.  ok.  tku.
>
> how about automatically checking code in examples?

I think this is the recommended mechanism for that: 
http://dlang.org/unittest.html (documented unit tests)


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