Re: [TFUI] Re: comments on my first chapter

On Friday, April 21, 2006, at 9:28:04 AM, Carl Manaster wrote:

>> The sentence "Write failing tests, and briefly make them pass" might
>> better say "quickly make them pass." Briefly connotes that they only
>> pass momentarily. I hope for better from my own ...

> I respectfully disagree.  I don't have the chapter in front of me, so
> I'm operating strictly off the quote here, but what it suggests to me
> is Fake It Til You Make It, and I think that's a powerful concept to
> have in the toolkit - one not suggested by "quickly".  Put the code in
> place to get past this test to get you in shape for refactoring and
> the next test, so you can stay green, even knowing that the code you
> write is just throwaway scaffolding.

Doesn't briefly imply starting to pass, then soon not passing? It
seems to me that brief refers to an interval in the future, and that
quick refers to an interval between now and soon from now.

I could be wrong, although I am a sema ... semant ... word guy.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.



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