Re: Quote of the day

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On 05/18/2016 05:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:30 am, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> On 05/18/2016 03:52 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>>> Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm not sure how
>>>> the test runner could determine that it was empty.  I guess it could
>>>> introspect the test function to see if it had any real code in it,
>>>
>>> Then people would just get clever at putting dummy code
>>> in the test that fools the test runner but doesn't really
>>> test anything...
>>
>> Some would have, sure.
>>
>> Either way, it's a solved issue now because we (finally ;) have the
>> @skip decorator.
>
> That only solves the problem for responsible, decent developers.

Since I'm not a manager (and when I was, I wasn't the PHB type), 
responsible, decent developers are where I focus my attention.

--
~Ethan~

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