Should unittests run as logical part of compilation?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:15:23PM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/26/14 8:08 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> >On Monday, 27 January 2014 at 03:58:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>Yeppers. One other thought I had was to define a special flag e.g.
> >>--4c5ad7908c2aa1b3de32ea25968cdf49 that says "just run unittests".
> >
> >I really think it would be better to use
> >--4c5ad7908c2aa1b3de42ea25968cdf49 instead, it just makes the intent
> >clearer.
> 
> I'm just saying it should not clash with any application argument.
[...]

That won't work if the application is a git client looking for an SHA
hash argument...

Let's not add arbitrary things like this to D programs, it doesn't
address the issue and only introduces needless special cases.


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