From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-11-10T04:19:07+09:00
Subject: Re: FileString - request for comments

On 9 Nov 2009, at 16:49, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> Robert,
>
> RK> I am still trying to wrap my head around the question whether  
> hiding
> RK> file IO behind a String API is a good idea.
>
> As the PickAxe book points out, by having file i/o represented by a
> String ... that is, making it irrelevant whether one is talking to a
> String or a File ... makes for some nice unit testing.

Using a given representation just because it's unit testing friendly  
isn't necessarily a good idea...


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason