Class Variable Question

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:58:35 +0200, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> pisze:

> It _could_, but it won't.  If your unit-tests are anywhere close to
> 1/10th as large as they should be, they'll catch all your typos 'hey
> pronto'.  If your unit-tests are even skimpier than that, your software
> is going to be so frail and weakly anyway that a few more uncaught
> typos aren't going to matter one way or another.

PyChecker has found typos in the Python distribution.

I conclude that Python hasn't been tested ehough - otherwise, as you
are saying, these typos would have been caught. Does it mean that
Python is so poorly written that a few more uncaught typos don't make
a difference?

> Your C++ compiler doesn't catch all the typos you can make where you
> type '+' while meaning to type '-', or '>' intending '<', etc, for
> example.

Of course. No language catches such typos.

It doesn't imply that catching detectable typos (e.g. using names
which are not defined) is worthless!

I'm seeing again this poor argument: some mechanism doesn't solve
all problems, so it's worse than having nothing...

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