... Please explain more about what you mean "weak on the deviance side". I tend to test my failure cases using mocked objects and subroutines, which means the...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Aug 29, 2005 1:22 pm
... It's, like, very, ok, repeatitive, ok? Test::* and xUnit need a refactoring so that you only express what is the essence of the cases. They are also weak...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Aug 29, 2005 4:30 am
Right. TMTOWDI applies. But what is it about the de facto standard wheel that you don't like? I read your code, and I don't see any advantage. Enlighten me....
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cpp gent
cppgent0
Aug 29, 2005 4:06 am
... Depends on the wheel....
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Aug 29, 2005 3:12 am
I just use Test::More and prove. Why reinvent the wheel?...
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cpp gent
cppgent0
Aug 29, 2005 2:47 am
Not sure what unit tester you all use, but I wrote one that seems pretty good (so far). Its main claim to fame is it that it automatically detects test cases...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Aug 27, 2005 9:38 pm
... Cool :-)...
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Alan Young
alansyoungiii
Aug 27, 2005 4:26 pm
That article is how I found out about extreme perl. -- Alan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Aug 27, 2005 1:35 am
... Nice article. Rob...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Aug 27, 2005 1:00 am
Here's the URL of the article - link to this group is on the last page. http://perl.com/pub/a/2005/08/25/tools.html...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Aug 26, 2005 10:52 pm
... Must be. We had at +10 sign ups today. PR adds value. Rob...
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Dave Cross
daveorguk
Aug 26, 2005 10:23 pm
... Of course, it might just be that you were linked to from this week's new perl.com article. Dave......
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Aug 26, 2005 2:36 pm
I can't speak for anyone else, but I recently joined the list. I began my professional career in 1998 writing Perl programs for the web. Then, in late 2001,...
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Rob Kinyon
dragonchild93
Aug 26, 2005 1:41 pm
... I think it's more that there's an upsurge in understand that XP applies to Perl. Rob...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Aug 26, 2005 12:53 pm
Our list seems to be growing all of a sudden. Is there a upswing in the use of Perl around the world or XP? Cheers, Rob...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Jul 26, 2005 6:02 pm
... Do you have a performance benchmark for this improvement? Thanks, Rob...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jul 26, 2005 2:57 pm
I'm wondering if someone on this list is interested in a paying gig improving the Language::Guess module so that it is much, much faster, say 50-100 times...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 20, 2005 2:51 pm
... Now that's more like it :-) ... Matisse Enzer <matisse@...> http://www.matisse.net/ - http://www.eigenstate.net/ 415-225-6703 (work/cellphone) ...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Jun 20, 2005 3:10 am
... It took us about a year or more to get bOP into enough shape to release. In hindsight it was really worth it. The primary business value is that it...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Jun 20, 2005 3:06 am
... We uploaded our cperl extensions to the files area of this group. Blake needs approval. Rob...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Jun 20, 2005 3:05 am
... We always say: "No problem is too complex". We also say: Scope = f(Risk, Time, Resources) When our customers argue about this equation, we explain the...
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Rob Kinyon
dragonchild93
Jun 20, 2005 1:16 am
... I am a heavy believer in OO methodologies as an important tool in my toolbox and I leverage them in most code I write. Coming from a primarily Perl...
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blakemills
Jun 19, 2005 11:46 pm
... I'd love too, but I have to get permission from my company first. I'd like to get a lot of the infrastructure we've built inhouse back out into the...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 19, 2005 7:58 pm
... I am all in favor of unit tests, and test written before the thing they test. I don't know what I said that might have given you any other impression,...
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Ed Grimm
ed@...
Jun 19, 2005 6:57 pm
... You can't do this without writing something that will break my code. I believe it'll break Rob Kinyon's code even worse, if he uses object method calls in...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 19, 2005 6:40 pm
... Somehow Rob, I feel that if a client paid yo to figure out a way to do it, you and your team would find a way :-) I kind of doubt you would simply say...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Jun 19, 2005 5:45 pm
... I don't see how this is possible. Perl has no "interfaces" like Java. We have a convention for interfaces, but before you have the "foo", you can't know...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Jun 19, 2005 5:04 pm
... I like better tools to problems we encounter. :-) Everything else is YAGNI. Performance, tree views, checkin notifications, etc. are not problems we have....
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Johan Lindström
johan__l
Jun 19, 2005 4:56 pm
... Wow. With all the talk about this stuff I've started hacking a little on something like this, and now maybe it already exists :) Is it available somehwere?...
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J Matisse Enzer
matisse
Jun 19, 2005 3:07 pm
... I gather from your enthusiastic response to blake's list that you do like better tools - maybe the thing is, you really want them in emacs (which is fine...
