From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-20T02:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: How to duck type? - the psychology of static typing in Ruby

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Ben Giddings wrote:
> > Among people who don't program Ruby, one of the biggest complaints I've 
> > heard is that they'd be scared to create a really big program in Ruby 
> > because it wouldn't find a simple typo until it is actually executing 
> > the code at that point.  If it's a rarely-hit spot, then it could be a 
> > long time before it is discovered.  This concerns me too -- but I'm a 
> > big enough fan that I overlook this flaw and use Ruby anyhow.
> 
> A code coverage tool (combined with unit tests) can help this. There's
> one in RAA.
 

demo-site:
http://neoneye.dk/coverage/


RAA-entry:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/coverage2/


-- 
Simon Strandgaard