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2010/3/9 Yann Trevin <[email protected]>

> Scott,
>
> Assert.Equal should now support equality tests between multidimensional
> arrays. The assertion fails when:
>
>    - Ranks are different (their type being different, it will fail
>    anyway),
>    - Dimensional lengths are different,
>    - Or of course, when the contents of the arrays differ.
>
> However, I wonder whether we should extend Assert.AreElementsEqual to
> support T[,] and T[,,] as well. Even if it's clearly documented in the
> wiki, I guess that the average user might expect to find multidimensional
> array support in Assert.AreElementsEqual rather than in Assert.Equal.
>
> In the other hand, it's just a corner case and we can live with it.
>
> Regards,
> Yann.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Yann
>
> 2010/3/9 Jeff Brown <[email protected]>
>
> I agree, let's abandon System.Array.  Three dimensions should be enough for
>> the vast majority of people.
>>
>> There is another trick here though.  Notice that Assert.AreEqual and
>> Assert.AreElementsEqual behave identically when the operands are two arrays.
>>
>> So if the correct logic is implemented in ComparisonSemantics, then you
>> should be able to Assert.AreEqual arrays of any number of dimensions.
>>
>> With that in mind, perhaps it's not worth implementing overloads for
>> Assert.AreElementsEqual given that Assert.AreEqual will work just as well
>> and be just as typesafe.  We could document the case on
>> Assert.AreElementsEqual and on the wiki to guide people over there.
>>
>> Jeff.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Yann Trevin <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> The main problem I see with System.Array is that we will get "ambiguous
>>> invocation" warnings when using AreElementsEqual&co with unidimensional
>>> arrays.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, with T[,] and T[,,], we force the user to compare
>>> arrays with the same rank already (but I don't know if this is really an
>>> issue). The number of supported dimensions is also limited to 2 and 3 (but
>>> I'm not sure it's an issue neither) An advantage of the generic version is
>>> that we can report easily the exact coordinates of the failing elements.
>>>
>>> I think we should abandon System.Array.
>>>
>>> Agree?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/3/9 Yann Trevin <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure whether we should get stick with System.Array like in v2,
>>>> or make several more specific but generic overloads with T[,] and T[,,]
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2010/3/8 Jeff Brown <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>> Beware that you might encounter subtle problems if you reference both
>>>>> MbUnit v2 and MbUnit v3 assemblies at the same time.  Gallio will try to 
>>>>> run
>>>>> tests using both MbUnit v2 and MbUnit v3.  Normally there is no conflict 
>>>>> but
>>>>> it could confuse some things like the ReSharper plugins.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Scott Williams 
>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> > > For now, use OldCollectionAssert in the MbUnit.Compatibility.dll.
>>>>>>  These
>>>>>> > > are basically the old MbUnit v2 asserts wrapped up in a form that
>>>>>> MbUnit v3
>>>>>> > > can handle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you, this is working fine.  I had also figured out how to setup
>>>>>> an extern alias to be able to reference both v2 and v3 mbUnit
>>>>>> assemblies at one time, but the MbUnit.Compatibility.dll is a better
>>>>>> solution.
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