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> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:14:03 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > I want to inherit from a class, and define aliases for many of its
> > attributes.
>
> Are these aliases of arbitrary aliases, or only of methods, as in your
> example below?
I
sive than
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> In article <87fwpse4zt@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
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> > I have found the ‘testscenarios’ library very useful for this:
> > bind a sequence of (name, dict) tuples to the test case class, and
> > each tuple represents a sc
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> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:50:56 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Steven D'Aprano writes:
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> >> Mono is free, open source software that is compatible with .NET
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> > It's difficult to take a claim of
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> Le 16/04/2011 23:13, Ben Finney a écrit :
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> > The ‘bool’ built-in is not a function.
>
> Oops, unfortunate confusion!! but built-in types and built-in
> functions are sometimes so similar from the user's point of view ;)
Yes, intentionally so, bec
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> Le 17/04/2011 11:46, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > What is the “shortcut” you refer to?
>
> bool(x) is nothing more than a shortcut for the following expression :
> True if x else False.
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> my tests. But now I know to unroll those suckers into individual tests
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Ben Finney writes:
> Tim Chase writes:
> > Mercurial (hg)
> > ==
[…]
> > Cons:
> > - no biggies that I've found
>
> - (Anecdotal) Merge algorithm sometimes fails catastrophically.
I'm going to retract this one point. Merging is not as
Jean-Michel Pichavant writes:
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> > Mercurial – are the ones to choose from. Anoyone recommending a VCS tool
> > that has poor merging support (such as Subversion or, heaven help us,
> > CVS) is doing the newcomer a disservice.
> > True enough. B
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> > Each test case should be testing one thing: if it fails, it should be
> > for exactly one reason.
>
> Well, yeah, that's certainly the XP/unit-test doctrine. In practice
> however, tests often get written as "do
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> > On Thu, 05 May 2011 07:43:59 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
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> >>‘x’ is a name. Names are bound to values. Talk of “variable” only
> >>confuses the issue because of the baggage carried with that term.
>
> But to use 'name' as a
Gregory Ewing writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > No, I think not. The term “variable” usually comes with a strong
> > expectation that every variable has exactly one name.
>
> I would say that many variables don't have names *at all*, unless you
> consider an expre
be able to draw the obvious connection without me
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>wrote:
> : Hans Georg Schaathun writes:
> :
> : > On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:31:45 -0700 (PDT), alex23
> : >wrote:
> : > : On May 12, 7:24 am, harrismh777 wrote:
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> >> I'm putting lots of work into this. I would rather not have some
> >> script kiddy dig through it, yank out chunks and do whatever he
> >>
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