Re: Ioke - getting started.

[Ola Bini <ola.bini@gmail.com>]

Martin Elwin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Ola Bini <ola.bini@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> > This could be an ordering problem. Meaning it only fails when running all the 
> > tests, and it only fails in one specific ordering of them because they're 
> > failing because of a global name being there when it shouldn't - or the other 
> > way around. Could you just add it to the issue tracker and I'll fix it 
> > tomorrow?
> >     
>
> Yes, indeed. Digging further (and increasing my grasp of Ioke as
> well!) revealed that the two tests failed because of other tests
> setting cells in Ground which the subsequent tests didn't expect:
>
> % grep -r "Ground flurg =" test
> test/message_spec.ik:      Message wrap(Ground flurg = 444)
> test/default_behavior_spec.ik:      `(Ground flurg = 444)
>
> % grep -r "Ground y =" test
> test/list_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
> test/range_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
> test/range_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
> test/range_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
> test/range_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
> test/dict_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
> test/set_spec.ik:      Ground y = []
>
> I'm not sure if you want the tests to leave the world in a clean state
> or if we could just change the used cell names. As no existing tests
> do any cleanup to speak of I just change the cell names, which
> resolved the issue. Fixes for each tests are commited to
> git://github.com/melwin/ioke.git
>
> I also added this to bugzilla
> (http://kenai.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163) for tracking.
>   
Yeah, currently the tests have a tendency to litter global namespaces. 
That is OK, as long as the names are sufficiently unique. Thanks for 
looking at it.

Cheers

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