Re: What do you think about Constraint modifiers?

Hi Simone,
 
I put us back on the list so others can comment as well.
 
I'm sure we can figure out something else if we need to. Either way will
take effort,
so I thought I'd ask what people think it *should* look like first.
 
Charlie


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From: Simone Busoli [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:39 AM
To: Charlie Poole
Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] What do you think about Constraint modifiers?


Do you think it would be possible to set up a different mechanism for
building constraints so that dealing with those modifiers becomes easier?


On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Charlie Poole <[email protected]> wrote:


In case you didn't know, those are the things that come after the main
constraint
and modify how it acts. Currently we have:
 .Within(...)
 .IgnoreCase
 .RespectCase
 .AsCollection
 .NoClip
 .Comparer(...)

These are devilishly hard to get right in the syntax. For example, you can
type Is.Null.IgnoreCase in the current code, which makes no sense. Before
putting more time into this, I wanted to ask whether you use these and
whether the current format works well.

I know some people are bothered by a form that looks like a getter property
modifying the state of the object, but you could also say it's just a new
paradigm and get used to it. Obviously, if we abandoned the modifier
syntax, we would need to find other ways to do the same stuf.

Your thoughts?

Charlie




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