From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: "Vítor De Araújo" <vbuaraujo@sapo.pt>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Python-style doctests in Guile (implemented, please comment)
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:05:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3odj2cy.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59DD4C68.3020501@sapo.pt>
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Vítor De Araújo <vbuaraujo@sapo.pt> writes:
> On 10/10/2017 15:21, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> I’m sorry for answering so late; your suggestion stuck to my mind as a
>> clean and schemish solution for my usecase (thank you!) but it took me
>> quite a while to realize it.
>
> I'm glad you liked it. :)
I do, very much so. It’s another case of Guile already providing
something I know from Python, but much cleaner — and (on the downside)
with less infrastructure built on top of it.
> [snip]
>> Now there’s one first question: How should I call it? :-)
>>
>> Currently the modules is (examples doctests). Do you have a better idea
>> than "doctests"?
>
> Maybe "proptests", since they are stored in the function properties
> rather than inside the docstring? Or maybe "vectests", since they are
> written inside a vector? (Of these I think "proptest" sounds better,
> because it sounds more like "doctest".) Or maybe just go along with
> "doctests".
Hm, yes, though proptest seems hard to pronounce. Since the string is
called documentation string, the test could really just stick to being
called documentation test (doctest).
Thanks again!
Best wishes,
Arne
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-30 18:54 Python-style doctests in Guile (implemented, please comment) Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-07-31 8:22 ` Chaos Eternal
2017-07-31 17:44 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-08-01 1:36 ` Chaos Eternal
2017-07-31 12:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-31 13:04 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-07-31 17:23 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-08-01 22:04 ` Vítor De Araújo
2017-10-10 18:21 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-10-10 22:40 ` Vítor De Araújo
2017-10-14 13:05 ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
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