From: Maxence Guesdon <maxence.guesdon@inria.fr>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] testing private functions with oUnit
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:58:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140929125854.20af2b92@alcazar2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411987686.5797.128.camel@e130>
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:48:06 +0200
Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
> I think there is some missing functionality in OCaml: a mechanism to
> grant access to something that is normally hidden. This is not only
> important for unit testing but for debugging in general (remember that
> even ocamldebug cannot break module abstractions).
>
> What about this idea: modules (and only modules) can have associated
> visibility attributes. These are set with the definition or in the
> signature, e.g.
>
> module Implementation { "debug" } = struct ... end
> [...]
Couldn't recently introduced attributes be used to filter in or out
some parts of modules depending on a command line flag ?
- m
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-29 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 23:06 Eric Cooper
2014-09-28 23:12 ` Eric Cooper
2014-09-28 23:19 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2014-09-29 7:08 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-09-29 8:03 ` Francois Berenger
2014-09-29 13:23 ` Eric Cooper
2014-09-29 8:28 ` ygrek
2014-09-29 8:50 ` Jeremie Dimino
2014-09-29 10:48 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-09-29 10:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-09-29 10:58 ` Maxence Guesdon [this message]
2014-09-29 12:00 ` Malcolm Matalka
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