[Zope-dev] Re: zope.sendmail Retry fixes and new state machine.

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Mon Mar 10 23:37:21 EDT 2008


On Monday 10 March 2008, Martijn Pieters wrote:
> I completely agree with Tres' and Wichert's statements on this. I only
> use doctests where they actually would make sense as documentation,
> the corner cases I always write as unit tests. The tools for dealing
> with pure Python code are so much more powerful than for
> python-embedded-in-text-with-prefixes, as well.

In my opinion it is as necessary to describe corner cases with words. In fact, 
corner cases often need even more documentation, because they are not 
obvious.

Regards,
Stephan
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