[Haskell-cafe] Testing and module export lists

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Thu Feb 25 18:12:15 EST 2010


Magnus Therning schrieb:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:41, Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oqube at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Maybe you just want to test what's in your export list which
>> represents the public interface of your code. And if you cannot write
>> a test that exercise private implementation through the public
>> interface, then maybe there is a design problem...
>>     
>
> Possibly!
>
> The specific case I have is a module for parsing a small language.
> The module exports a single function, a function that takes a string
> and returns a tree.  Of course the parser is built using parser
> combinators.  I'd like to test each combinator I've built, but I don't
> want to export them all.  The only way I see of achieving this is to
> split each module in two, one public and one internal, where the
> public one just re-exports the relevant pieces of the internal one.
> That's workable, but hardly aesthetically pleasing ;-)
>   
It can be tedious to manage two variants of each module, but I often had 
to go this way anyway in order to avoid cyclic dependencies or because 
some modules need internals of other modules of the same package.



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