Proposal: Enhancing unittest with Inline Module-Level Statements

[ryuukk_]

On Wednesday, 20 November 2024 at 17:10:30 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> 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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> making things annoying doesn't make me do them right

unittest in the middle of a function is bad, to stay polite