How can one reliably run unittests

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 03:44:40PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/25/2021 2:05 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
> > The problem with -main is that it's too blunt an instrument: it will
> > add a main function whether the code you're compiling already has
> > one or not. That means you have to keep track of which modules have
> > main functions and which ones don't, so that you (or more
> > realistically, your build system) can add -main only when it's
> > necessary.
> 
> That problem has never occurred to me, and has never happened to me,
> yet I use -main all the time.
> 
> One way to resolve it is just put your main() in a separate module.

This always happens to me, so much so that I've come to insert the
following as boilerplate to all my code:

	version(unittest){} else
	int main(string[] args) { ... }


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