[racket] eli-tester (was "Using Racket to solve Professor Layton puzzles")

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Jul 28 15:51:42 EDT 2011

Three hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> BTW, if you're curious, there was some discussion about this on the
> "users" or "dev" email list, perhaps a few months ago.
> 
> My impression&opinion is that we're trying to get a library that
> scales from small to large and rapid to plodding, is flexible enough
> to do everything people want, is included standard in Racket, and
> has an inoffensive syntax that everyone can live with (the fringe
> elements can layer their own syntax).  Then maybe everyone will use
> the one testing library instead of using several incompatible
> testing libraries and keeping making more incompatible testing
> libraries.  Ideally, Eli and/or Noel will do all the work, perhaps
> in competition, while I sip iced tea.

The plan there was to have a shared foundation that all testing
facilities will build on, which makes it possible to build related
tools independently of the actual testing library you use.

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