Ditto. I've been thinking about this for a few weeks and would be happy to help out where I can.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Paul Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like this idea and I would be willing to contribute. > > On Oct 19, 6:43 pm, "Stephen C. Gilardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:11 PM, J. McConnell wrote: >> >> > I've been thinking the same thing for awhile now and I'd love to help >> > contribute to an effort like this. Thanks for getting the idea out >> > there. >> >> You're welcome. It seems like clojure.contrib could be a more >> convenient place to keep this than the wiki. >> >> Direct or indirect contributions to clojure.contrib require that the >> contributed code be written by the contributor and that the >> contributor have a contributor agreement on file with Rich. Would that >> be acceptable to people interested in participating? I appreciate the >> care Rich showed and long view he took in coming up with the >> Contributor Agreement process. I think it would be a good idea to >> leverage that process for this effort as well. >> >> Discussion of alternative proposals for a good way to do this and >> place to keep it are welcome. >> >> I made a start on this today. I started with the Reader page at >> clojure.org and started making tests. I'm thinking of a structure like >> this: >> >> Run tests with: >> >> (require 'clojure.contrib.test-clojure) >> >> The definition of clojure.contrib.test-clojure requires subordinate >> test namespaces like >> >> 'clojure.contrib.test-clojure.Reader >> 'clojure.contrib.test-clojure.Evaluation >> 'clojure.contrib.test-clojure.Special-Forms >> ... >> >> with names that correspond to pages on the Clojure web site. After >> requiring the individual test namespaces, test-clojure runs >> "clojure.contrib.test-is/run-tests" on each one. >> >> Here's a sample from clojure.contrib.test-clojure. >> >> (ns clojure.contrib.test-clojure.Reader >> (:use clojure.contrib.test-is)) >> >> (deftest t-Symbols >> (is (= 'abc (symbol "abc"))) >> (is (= '*+!-_? (symbol "*+!-_?"))) >> (is (= 'abc:def:ghi (symbol "abc:def:ghi"))) >> (is (= 'abc/def (symbol "abc" "def"))) >> (is (= 'abc.def/ghi (symbol "abc.def" "ghi"))) >> (is (= 'abc/def.ghi (symbol "abc" "def.ghi"))) >> (is (= 'abc:def/ghi:jkl.mno (symbol "abc:def" "ghi:jkl.mno"))) >> (is (instance? clojure.lang.Symbol 'alphabet)) >> ) >> >> ; additional tests to flesh out >> (deftest t-Numbers) >> (deftest t-Characters) >> (deftest t-nil) >> (deftest t-Booleans) >> (deftest t-Keywords) >> (deftest t-Lists) >> (deftest t-Vectors) >> (deftest t-Maps) >> (deftest t-Sets) >> (deftest t-Quote) >> (deftest t-Character) >> (deftest t-Comment) >> (deftest t-Meta) >> (deftest t-Deref) >> (deftest t-Regex) >> (deftest t-Metadata) >> (deftest t-read) >> >> and a run: >> >> user=> (require 'clojure.contrib.test-clojure) >> Testing #<Namespace: clojure.contrib.test-clojure.Reader> >> >> Ran 18 tests with 10 assertions. >> 0 failures, 0 exceptions. >> nil >> user=> >> >> (Currently the number of tests exceeds the number of assertions by so >> much because of the placeholders.) >> >> Tesing Clojure is a big project and will take a lot of work over time. >> There many pieces and many interactions among them to test. The hope >> is that having it available will allow Rich to make changes with an >> even higher degree of confidence that they didn't have unintended >> consequences and to support efforts like Chouser's ClojureScript to >> bring Clojure to new platforms >> >> Discussion and suggestions are welcome. >> >> --Steve > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
