[Python-3000] Generic function PEP won't make it in time (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 26 03:27:13 CEST 2007
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Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper wrote:
If you believe that there exist data structures or algorithms where a meaningful unit test takes many minutes or hours,
I wouldn't be worried about spending minutes to save hours later.
As for unit tests taking hours -- I'm skeptical. Do you know of algorithms that it's provably impossible to test without it taking hours?
Thirdly -- your program can still fail after many hours due to one of the many things your static checks don't and can't cover.
-- Greg
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