Re: [TFUI] pytest is better than assert{ 2.0 } (except it's in Python! Bleah!)
Phlip <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:35:40 -0800
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> I don't think Go has any of the features I mentioned; in fact, of the
> features I've seen, only garbage collection is common to the two
> languages. In particular, Go doesn't have a prettyprinting assert
> statement, which is important in the context of this conversation :-).
Noted but I suspect the ability to build a reflecting assert, at the
language level, is more important than simply providing one.
The=A0cautionary tale here is BASIC's magic PRINT statement. It does
things nothing else in the language can do, because it's implemented
at the parser level. Don't do that!
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<p>> I don't think Go has any of the features I mentioned; in fact=
, of the<br>
> features I've seen, only garbage collection is common to the two<br>
> languages. In particular, Go doesn't have a prettyprinting assert<br>
> statement, which is important in the context of this conversation :-).=
<br>
<br>
Noted but I suspect the ability to build a reflecting assert, at the<br>
language level, is more important than simply providing one.<br>
<br>
The=A0cautionary tale here is BASIC's magic PRINT statement. It does<br>
things nothing else in the language can do, because it's implemented<br>
at the parser level. Don't do that!<br>
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