[Haskell-beginners] testing and the culture of Haskell

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 20, 2010, at 05:31 , Amy de Buitléir wrote:
> properties and writing tests. If I were going to develop a large
> application in Haskell, I'd try to honour the spirit of TDD by
> defining properties before implementing functions.

This is a lot like "programming by contract", btw.  (Just something to  
think about.)  It's also where you can best take advantage of static  
typing, by implementing the properties as types so the type system  
helps you guarantee correctness.

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