Utah Valley University teaches D (using TDPL)

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 16/11/2010 21:11, Gide Nwawudu wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:54:50 -0800, Jonathan M Davis
> <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 07:53:01 Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> bearophile Wrote:
>>>> He also gives a quite useful unittest that the student implementation
>>>> must pass, this is a good usage of unittests. The unit test ends like
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>      writeln("unit test passed");
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, a person needs feedback that the unittests have run (and have
>>>> succeed), I have used similar things in my dlbs1 (but more refined).
>>>> This kind of need for feedback is so natural that something like that
>>>> will be better somehow done on default by D.
>>>
>>> I'd like unit tests to be optionally named: unittest("name").  The rest
>>> could then be done in library code.
>>
>> That would indeed be great. With that done, it could become possible to run unit
>> tests by name (though that would likely mean more changes for the compiler) in
>> an IDE or whatnot. There's at least one bug report suggesting it, IIRC, though I
>> think that it was suggested that they be named without the quotes.
>> unittest(name) should probably translate to something like unittest_name in
>> whatever scope it's in.
>>
>> In any case, it's a good enhancement request that hasn't come to fruition yet.
>> Most of the rest (if not all of it) could indeed be done in a library. Right now
>> unit tests follow the unix convention of saying nothing on success, which I
>> think is best for the current set up - particularly when it's not all that hard
>> to add code yourself which prints out success if you really want it to.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Already requested, see
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2749
>
> Gide

I also agree having named unittests might be quite useful. I'm not sure 
about the nesting though, its seems to me using the D module itself as 
nesting is perfectly fine.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer