unit-threaded v0.7.45 - now with more fluency

bauss jj_1337 at live.dk
Wed May 9 08:49:32 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 15:51:11 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 13:28:41 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> For those not in the know, unit-threaded is an advanced 
>> testing library for D that runs tests in threads by default. 
>> It has a lot of features:
>>
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/unit-threaded
>>
>> New:
>>
>> * Bug fixes
>> * Better integration testing
>> * unitThreadedLight mode also runs tests in threads
>> * More DDoc documentation (peer pressure from Adam's site)
>> * Sorta kinda fluent-like asserts
>>
>> On the new asserts (should and should.be are interchangeable):
>>
>>     1.should == 1
>>     1.should.not == 2
>>
>>     1.should.be in [1, 2, 3]
>>     4.should.not.be in [1, 2, 3]
>>
>> More controversially (due to a lack of available operators to 
>> overload):
>>
>>     // same as .shouldApproxEqual
>>     1.0.should ~ 1.0001;
>>     1.0.should.not ~ 2.0;
>>
>>     // same as .shouldBeSameSetAs
>>     [1, 2, 3].should ~ [3, 2, 1];
>>     [1, 2, 3].should.not ~ [1, 2, 2];
>>
>>
>> I also considered adding `.should ~=`. I think it even reads 
>> better, but apparently some people don't. Let me know?
>>
>> The operator overloads are completely optional.
>>
>>
>> Atila
>
> Personally, I don't like that kind of "abuse" of operators at 
> all. I think it looks really unusual and it kind of breaks your 
> "flow" when reading the code.

I agree with this. If the comments weren't added, nobody reading 
the code would have any idea what it actually does except for 
whoever wrote it.




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