Re: [Caml-list] ANN: should.ml, literate assertions for OCaml

[Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>]

I'm not sure a language resembling plain English is a good idea (for
instance, does "above" mean ">" or ">="?) but I like the tricks you used
to avoid the need for a preprocessor :)

Cheers,

-- 
Romain Bardou

Le 26/08/2013 20:34, Mike Lin a écrit :
> Should.ml is a little library for writing assertion statements in a
> domain-specific language roughly resembling plain English. This makes
> lengthy series of assertions (such as in unit tests) a little nicer to
> read - example pasted below. Through some mild abuse of objects and
> operators, I avoided the need for any preprocessor or syntax extension.
> 
> https://github.com/mlin/should.ml
> opam update && opam install should
> 
> Happy testing!
> Mike
> 
> Example:
> 
> 
> |open Should
> 
> let int_test_case () =
>     let x = 123 in begin
>         x $hould # equal 123;
>         x $hould # not # equal 0;
> 
>         x $hould # be # above 122;
>         x $hould # be # at # most 124;
> 
>         x $hould # be # within (122,123);
>         x $houldn't # be # within (1,3)
>     end
> |
> 
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