These improvements would be very nice. The unit test framework,
as it is, is rather underpowered.
Exceptions could also use more documentation on the D website. I
heard there was some exception chaining mechanism, but I can't
even seem to find any info on the Error class.
You shouldn't have to use a library to get named unit tests,
since unit
testing is built into D, and the lack of name unit tests is a
real problem for
stack traces and the like. It was suggested at one point that
at minimum,
unittest block functions have their line number in their name
so that you can
figure out which unittest block you're dealing with even if you
can't name it
yourself ( http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5587
), and not even
that's been done yet. Though now that I read through that
enhancement request
again, it looks like theres an old pull request with the
necessary changes in
it ( https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/264 ),
but it's one of
those that's been sitting around for a long time, probably
because it's an
enhancement rather than a bug fix, and Walter just hasn't
gotten around to it.
- Jonathan M Davis
