Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-22 17:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/22/11 6:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> You should treat your testing code just as you treat your "regular"
>> code. Just as well designed, just as modularized, just as effective,
>> just as clean. The testing code is in fact just as much part of the
>> "regular" code as the rest of the code.
>
> This. YES. A liability of the current std.datetime is that it assumes
> that unittest code is exempt from the rules that apply to regular code.
> I am increasingly worried about that module. It has been argued that its
> sheer size is not a problem, but somehow the task of accounting for that
> has taken a life of its own - e.g. we can't test std.datetime like
> everything else in Phobos, it needs its own version.
>
> Andrei

That doesn't sound right. If std.datetime can't be tested like the rest 
of Phobos there's something quite seriously wrong with it.

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/Jacob Carlborg