Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/22/11 6:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> You should treat your testing code just as you treat your "regular"
> code. Just as well designed, just as modularized, just as effective,
> just as clean. The testing code is in fact just as much part of the
> "regular" code as the rest of the code.

This. YES. A liability of the current std.datetime is that it assumes 
that unittest code is exempt from the rules that apply to regular code. 
I am increasingly worried about that module. It has been argued that its 
sheer size is not a problem, but somehow the task of accounting for that 
has taken a life of its own - e.g. we can't test std.datetime like 
everything else in Phobos, it needs its own version.

Andrei