[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: DocTest-0.2.0

[Simon Hengel]

I just uploaded a new version of DocTest[1] to Hackage.


WHAT IS DocTest?
================

DocTest is a port of Python's doctest[2] to Haskell.  It can be used to
verify, that examples in Haddock comments[3] do still work.  This also
provides you with a simple mechanism to write unit test, without the
burden of maintaining a dedicated test suite.

A basic example of usage is at [4].


WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION?
===========================

Support for blank lines in the result of an expression (analogous to the
<BLANKLINE>-feature of Python's doctest).  Here is an example of usage:

    -- |
    -- Some example:
    --
    -- >>> putStrLn "foo\n\nbar"
    -- foo
    -- <BLANKLINE>
    -- bar

Currently this is implemented in DocTest, but we will move it to Haddock
with the next release.

Cheers,
Simon

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/DocTest
[2] http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html
[3] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html#id566093
[4] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/DocTest
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