Re: [Cppunit-devel] toString() v.s. getName()

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

Quoting "Steve M. Robbins" <ste...@vi...>:

> Hi,
> 
> With respect to the toString/getName controversy: I realized yesterday
> that the "assertion_traits" class also has a toString() method.  In
> this case one is converting an arbitrary type T to a string
> representation, so "toString()" fits better than "getName()".
> 
> I'm starting to wonder whether it is better to eliminate getName()
> on the Test classes, and stick with toString() universally.  Or,
> we could go ahead with the initial plan, and leave assertion_traits
> to be an exception.
> 
> I'm leaning towards the first option.
> Thoughts?

  toString() and getName() have very different semantic.

  * getName(): give me the name of that test so I can identify it.

  * toString(): dump this object as a string so I can diagnose the problem (why 
is not equal to that other one) without running the debugger.

  So, I would exterminate toString() from CppUnit, with the exception of 
assertion_traits.

  Baptiste.

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