On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 12:03:09 AM UTC+1, Ben Finney wrote: > > "If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important > > enough to be in Python." -- Ethan Furman > > Ethan Furman writes: > > > Yes, the smiley was acknowledgement that testing is hard, will never > > be perfect, and we only have so much time -- but thorough tests should > > still be the goal. > > I agree with the statement in full. I wonder what Terry disagrees with > in that statement. > > -- > \ “A hundred times every day I remind myself that […] I must | > `\ exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have | > _o__) received and am still receiving” —Albert Einstein | > Ben Finney
Terry actually said "In the context of debating how to improve python from where it is now, I do not find the quote very helpful, as it glosses over real difficulties of testing. I will try to explain in the original thread." referring to https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2017-April/004436.html so if you pop over there I'm sure that you'll get your answer. Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
