[racket-dev] [racket] Disable/Enable Tests

I don't recall our original reasoning, but I envision that with such a  
macro students will think they are only disabling the tests "below"  
the "call" and become confused. This isn't to say we shouldn't switch  
to a macro

-Kathy

On 28 Nov 2011, at 13:23, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>  
wrote:

>
> Why does this have to be a menu?
> Why not add a macro to the test-engine code so that students can write
> (disable-tests)
>
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:30 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:
>
>>
>> Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> writes:
>>
>>> [ moved to dev ]
>>>
>>> Apparently this broke somewhere in between v5.0 (June 2010) where it
>>> works and v5.1 (Feb 2011) where it doesn't. I can't use git bisect  
>>> to
>>> find the precise commit because the earlier version doesn't  
>>> compile on
>>> either my windows or my mac machine (mac is lion and windows uses  
>>> too
>>> new of a version of visual studio).
>>>
>>> And I *hate* touching this code because something always ends up
>>> broken. I got really mad last time this code broke and so I hope we
>>> have better test suites now because of that, but I'm really not
>>> excited by the prospect of trying to change it again. Not only is  
>>> the
>>> code hard to understand because it is poorly written, it is also
>>> unclear what parts of DrRacket it influences.
>>>
>>> Given all of this, my inclination is to simply remove this option.  
>>> So
>>> far the only one who has spoken in favor of it gave a reason that
>>> (thankfully) no longer applies.
>>>
>>> Any objections? Comments?
>>>
>>> Mike?
>>
>> Some tests (especially check-property-based tests) are expensive, and
>> you don't always want to run them - especially with world/universe- 
>> based
>> code.  Is there a way to have that option only with the student
>> languages?
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers =8-} Mike
>> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
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