Comments on: Why I’m hooked on parameters

By: nokfarang001

nokfarang001 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:21:32 +0000

Thank you for share source code.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:55:41 +0000

Marius — what text editors do that? This code is from an open-source
project with a user base of one (me), but I'd like to make it useful
for others.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:24:20 +0000

Looking at the code I wondered slightly whether it'll work with text editors that don't overwrite the file in place but instead rename the original to *.bak and create a new file with the same name.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:48 +0000

Yeah, before I ever heard of unit testing or mock objects, I would do
most of my debugging by working in an interactive session, and just
run my program in tiny little pieces like that.

When I worked with other programmers, it would drive me nuts to load
up some colleague's code into a session, and I'd try to instantiate
some class that was defined like this:


class C(object):

    def __init__(self):

But when I did C(), the initializer would blow up because of some
missing environmental configuration.

I don't much like the strict TDD mindset, but I do love how they're
getting people to make dependencies more obvious.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:46:38 +0000

This is a pretty good way to make your stuff easier to unit-test too… You can mock quite a bit more this way.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:48:32 +0000

Ben — thanks for the tip! I've been looking for a new language to
study. That one sounds really interesting.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:25 +0000

You should take a look at Newspeak, where everything is parameterized, including modules used by other modules