On 2014-01-25 23:06, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 22:55:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
In particular, this view of unittests declares our current stance on
running unittests ("run unittests just before main()") as meaningless.
Indeed that has bothered me for quite a while - unittests are part of
the build/acceptance, not part of every run. To wit, this is a growing
idiom in D programs:
version(unittest) void main() {}
else void main()
{
...
}
This idiom is probably mostly obsolete now that we have the -main flag.
An IDE can build with -unittest -main -run and exclude the source file
that normally defines `main`.
Except that would exclude any unit tests in the module that defines main.
Of course, if you want to be evil, you could even write unit tests for main:
int main() {
return 3;
} unittest {
assert(main() == 3);
}
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