Comments on: “Please” and “Thank You” Macro

By: Matthew E

Matthew E — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:04:32 +0000

NUnit attributes!

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[TestFixture]
public class SpousalRequests
{
[TestFixtureSetup]
public void SayPlease(){}
[TestFixtureTearDown]
public void SayThankYou(){}
[Test]
public void AskForRemote(bool bIsLost){}
}

By: William

William — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:10:45 +0000

Yeah, I can’t really think of any Java or C++ constructs that illustrate this, but Python has the perfect construct – decorators!

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/

By: di0bot

di0bot — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:26:37 +0000

haha. funny. thx.

By: Scott Westfall

Scott Westfall — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:06:23 +0000

@hfaber: Actually, I spent most of my time doing OO coding, but Java and C++ don’t have an OO construct that illustrates the point as well.

I could have used a mixin from my old LISP days defining before and after methods for “Please” and “Thank you”, but I thought that might be a tad obscure.

You gotta love programming: there are so many ways to skin a cat that you have to wonder why any cats still have skin.

By: hfaber

hfaber — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:58:43 +0000

I see you grew up in procedural style. Today’s OO kids would call it a “Please”-decorator!

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:32:39 +0000

spot on, or whatever kids say nowadays

By: Rich Gautier

Rich Gautier — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:25:28 +0000

macro(witty and endearing blog commentary);

By: Ignacio

Ignacio — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:12:48 +0000

like it!!!