[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: control-monad-loop 0.1

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159 at gmail.com> [2012-07-09 14:29:43-0400]
> > Also, it's not obvious how your tests work. Please consider using HUnit
> > and test-framework (or similar) to organize them.
> 
> The tests currently aren't automated.  It's hard to write an automated
> test to make sure a program doesn't leak.  Not impossible (thanks to
> GHC.Stats), but hard.

Unfortunately, in Haskell space usage is not modular[1], so ensuring
that a library (as opposed to a particular program) doesn't lead to
memory leaks is often hard.

Unit/property tests have more obvious benefits, IMO.

[1]: http://ro-che.info/articles/2012-04-08-space-usage-reasoning.html

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