On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 12:05:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Well at least all paths must be compiled. You wouldn't ship
templates that were never instantiated just as much as you
wouldn't ship any code without compiling it. We've had a few
cases in Phobos a while ago of templates that were never
instantiated, with simple compilation errors when people tried
to use them. -- Andrei
That is an instance of happy case testing. You test that what you
expect to work work. You can't test that everything that is not
supposed to work do not, or that you don't rely on a specific
behavior of the thing you are testing.
