From: brangdon@... (Dave Harris)
Date: 2001-12-16T23:35:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28680] Re: John Roth dolt (  Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. )

ronjeffries@REMOVEacm.org (Ron Jeffries) wrote (abridged):
> Given the implementation, I'm not clear on why we would want to test
> other permutations (since the internal representation is a sorted
> collection). Are you suggesting additional tests as protection against
> someone reimplementing the function erroneously?

Also as documentation, to make explicit a requirement of the function.

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