Subject: Re: [boost] Is there interest in unit testing both passing and failing BOOST_MPL_ASSERTs?
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-16 18:19:27
Ben Robinson <icaretaker <at> gmail.com> writes:
> produced that can be run in a unit test framework. The key ingredient
> of my idea, is to allow the code to compile by conditionally replacing
> the failing static asserts with throwing a run-time exception. Now the
> code can compile, and unit tests can be written to confirm that each
> assertion either passes or fails as desired.
As they say: I'll believe it, when I see it ;) Until that time this is
all too much vapor for me. As I mention in other post, you never explained
how this condition is checked and who is going to check it: compiler,
preprocessor, person.
Gennadiy