Proposal: Enhancing unittest with Inline Module-Level Statements

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On Wednesday, 20 November 2024 at 09:48:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:11:58 PM MST Sharif yt via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Personally, I think that it will just encourage writing poor 
> unit tests. Properly testing a function requires far more than 
> a line or two unless the functions is absolutely trivial. And 
> if you're writing more than a line or two, it just makes more 
> sense to use the unittest blocks that we have. We should be 
> encouraging more thorough testing, and this would do the exact 
> opposite of that.
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> So, IMHO, this would be adding more complication to the 
> language just to try to make it easier to write inadequate 
> tests, and I don't think think that we should be doing that.
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> - Jonathan M Davis

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