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Re: Why I’m hooked on parameters

Matt Wilson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:55:41 -0000

Marius -- what text editors do that? This code is from an open-source
project with a user base of one (me), but I'd like to make it useful
for others.

Re: Why I’m hooked on parameters

Marius Gedminas — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:24:20 -0000

Looking at the code I wondered slightly whether it'll work with text editors that don't overwrite the file in place but instead rename the original to *.bak and create a new file with the same name.

Re: Why I’m hooked on parameters

Matt Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:40:48 -0000

Yeah, before I ever heard of unit testing or mock objects, I would do
most of my debugging by working in an interactive session, and just
run my program in tiny little pieces like that.

When I worked with other programmers, it would drive me nuts to load
up some colleague's code into a session, and I'd try to instantiate
some class that was defined like this:
class C(object): def __init__(self):
But when I did C(), the initializer would blow up because of some
missing environmental configuration.

I don't much like the strict TDD mindset, but I do love how they're
getting people to make dependencies more obvious.

Thanks for the comment!

Re: Why I’m hooked on parameters

Gregg — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:46:38 -0000

This is a pretty good way to make your stuff easier to unit-test too... You can mock quite a bit more this way.

Re: Why I’m hooked on parameters

Matt Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:48:32 -0000

Ben -- thanks for the tip! I've been looking for a new language to
study. That one sounds really interesting.

Re: Why I’m hooked on parameters

Ben — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:59:25 -0000

You should take a look at Newspeak, where everything is parameterized, including modules used by other modules