Comment by astrobe_
When you say "isn't so bad", is it just a manner of speech or is it actually a little bad (but it is a compromise?)?
When you say "isn't so bad", is it just a manner of speech or is it actually a little bad (but it is a compromise?)?
Well, I was working on a sort of green-field project that did this, and I liked it. It neatly solved the problem of needing the tests, but only wanting to call them on user-provided inputs. However, some caveats:
* I wasn’t around long enough to see if there was a hidden maintenance cost
* It was a very thoughtfully designed library in an already-well-understood domain so it wasn’t like we were going to need to change the arguments a ton
* It was explicitly a library designed to be used as a library from the get-go, so there was a clear distinction of which functions should be user-visible.
I think I would find it annoying if I was doing exploratory programming and expected to change the arguments often. But, in that case, maybe it is too early to start checking user inputs anyway.