From: Massimiliano Mirra - bard <mmirra@...>
Date: 2004-10-19T05:09:22+09:00
Subject: Re: documentation as source

Eivind Eklund <eeklund@gmail.com> writes:

> Could people (excepting Nathaniel) that is likely to use the proposed
> syntax please speak up?  (If there's a lot of people that would use
> it, I'm probably wrong.)

I'm for any syntax that favours a quick code-test-code cycle.

With `quick' I don't mean `edit test file, save test file, switch to
class file, edit class file, save test file, switch to shell, run
tests', and an `extract parts of the test file' somewhere in between
certainly doesn't make it quicker.

By `quick' I mean `edit test part, edit class part, run tests'.
Currently I do this by writing tests at the end of a class file,
wrapped in a:

  if __FILE__ == $0 or (defined? $TESTING and $TESTING == true)
     require "test/unit"
     ...
  end
  
Just hitting C-c-c in Emacs at any given time will run the current
class's tests.

Back in August (<87acwguxo7.fsf@prism.localnet>) I tried something
similar to what Nathaniel proposes, so it's no surprise that I favour
his approach. :-)

Massimiliano