Postmortem: Template unittests are bad & you shouldn't catch Error

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 07:31:39PM +0000, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 16:30:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > The problem with that is that it quickly falls into the paradox of
> > who watches the watchers.  The next thing you know, I'm asking for a
> > way to test that my code that catches asserts are actually catching
> > asserts.  Next year I'll be asking for code to test my code that
> > tests code that catches asserts. It never ends.
> 
> Paradoxes don't exist. Tests are watchers, and practice shows their
> presence is better than their absence.

I agree tests are watchers.  But it starts a bit ridiculous when you
need to test your tests...


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