[TIP] Column questions.

[Noah Gift]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>> Should I really write my tests first?  Why?
>
> We (at ZC) have found that writing doctests first forces us to be able
> to explain the APIs we're constructing; that often affects the
> resulting API, sometimes in not-so-subtle ways.

I have to admit, I like Fred's idea a lot.  As like Titus, I am not
completely won over to the TDD side.  Doctests though are interesting
as they are like drawing on a chalkboard.  Hmm, I might start doing
this.

http://www.multicians.org/andre.html

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