Postmortem: Template unittests are bad & you shouldn't catch Error

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Oct 23 09:19:01 UTC 2020


On Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 19:34:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> Of course that is an extra step so the unittest does have the 
> advantage of being obvious and built in, but the official 
> website could compile them as part of its existing auto test. 
> And it can do it using the same live environment end users 
> actually try, so same imports, same compiler version present on 
> the "try it now" website, etc., for a more accurate test.

It needs to work for every project, not just Phobos which has the 
"try it now".

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/Jacob Carlborg



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