On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 12:55:11 UTC, Benjamin Thaut
wrote:
While your proposal sounds interresting to start with I don't
like some of the implications:
1) You force people to write unittest. If people don't write a
export unittest block their templates won't work across shared
library boundaries.
Not writing unittests is a bad idea anyway.
Much more so if you want to ship your code as library!
2) A template in D might get __very__ complex. To make sure
that each and every function needed is actually exported your
unittests would need to have 100% coverage. Looking at some of
the template code in phobos this won't be any more fun than
manually putting export in front of every required function.
Oh yes, it's much more fun, because you get something very
valueable in return: 100% coverage!
The more complex the template gets, the more valueable such a
unittest becomes.
Especially in phobos I pretty much expect such unittests to
already exist. What a shame if not so!
