[Haskell-cafe] Haskell doctest

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am 28.09.2016 um 09:09 schrieb Tony Morris:
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> On 28/09/16 17:06, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> Am 28.09.2016 um 08:29 schrieb Tony Morris:
>>> There is nothing of merit in Python libraries to be learned.
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>> That's almost true, but not 100%.
>> E.g. does Haskell have doctests? I.e. you can write example code in
>> the API-level docs, and there is tooling that can extract them, run
>> them, and report whether the examples still work.
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> I've been doing that for years, with the exception that doing so in
> Haskell is far superior than in Python for reasons too long to list.
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> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/doctest

Ah, sweet.

 >  for reasons too long to list.

Can somebody with a similar long-time working experience in Haskell 
doctests provide such a list?
It would be helpful in more than one way: It would help advocate 
Haskell, and to the kind of audience that is interested in high quality 
so it's a double win; and it would help other language communities 
improve their doctest ecosystem, and I think that's what most 
multi-language people would very much like to happen.

Regards,
Jo