About the Expressiveness of D

[Walter Bright]

On 4/3/2013 11:56 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Certainly, I agree that having the minimal tests required to test everything
> that needs testing should be the goal, but figuring out which tests are and
> aren't really needed is a bit of art.

That's why we are engineers, and not mere code monkeys.


> Actually, I'd argue that in perfect world, you'd test absolutely every
> possible input to make sure that it had the correct output, but that's
> obviously impossible in all but the most simplistic code,

We can exploit mathematics to reduce the test cases while testing thoroughly. In 
physics I learned to test one's solution with the boundary cases and a couple of 
known cases. Mathematically, that was sufficient.