[fpc-devel] Some thoughts on multi-line string support, and a possible syntax that I think is perfectly clean and Pascal-ish.

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sat Jul 6 17:44:32 CEST 2019


Am 06.07.2019 um 14:24 schrieb Ben Grasset:
> General question regarding the tests I'm writing:
>
> What kind of numbers should I be going for? Is something like 10 that 
> pass and 10 that fail a good ratio? Or should it be more of them that 
> pass?

It's not about the ratio of passing and failing tests or a general 
number of tests. You should simply try to cover as many cases as 
possible to ensure that
A) the feature works as intended
B) things that shouldn't work indeed don't work

> Also, is using the names "tmultilinestrings1.pp", 
> "tmultilinestrings2.pp", e.t.c. appropriate?
>
Yes. Though you can use the singular as well.

Regards,
Sven


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