January 2008 Entries

Fluent Interface Reservations

Reading Hanselman’s latest, still trying to work out whether I actually like fluent interfaces. The MBUnit example is particularly ugly, to my eyes: testObject.ShouldBeTheSameObjectAs(targetObject).And.ShouldBeEqualTo(testObject).And.ShouldSatisfy(x => x is Object); Recently I've been noodling about with writing a unit testing library in JavaScript (what's wrong with jsUnit? Nothing, obviously. Doesn't stop me noodling about.). I ended up with some experimental syntax like this: // function to test function add(a, b) {   return a + b; } // tests with (add) {   ResultOf(0, 0).Is(0,  '0 + 0 = 0');   ResultOf(2, 2).Is(4,  '2 + 2 = 4'); ResultOf(-3, 4).Is(1,  '-3 + 4 = 1'); } Which is quite nice, but then...

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