From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2006-11-03T23:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby programming best practice

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> I don't really know. Invariably, someone will post a question about
> tools, or the language, or strong typing, or compile-time checking, or
> processes, or practices, or just about anything, and the answer will
> come back, "testing is good". I know testing is good. But sometimes I
> wonder if we aren't expecting too much from testing.

At this point in the discussion, those who advocate relentless testing often 
point out they never use the Ruby debugger.

Maybe I should; I might learn the control flow thru some of those wicked 
continuances in all these Ruby libraries. I certainly debug a lot, with 
trace statements.

But advanced debugging certainly isn't a best practice. It can prove the 
absense of bugs much worse than testing can! ;-)

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  Phlip
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