From: Magnus Therning
How do people who like unit testing / property testing deal with export lists?
I often find that I do want an export list to reduce clutter in the finished code, but for testing I'd like to expose everything in a module. Is there a nice way to deal with this (using the C pre-processor would not qualify as "nice" ;-)? Maybe there's a switch that causes GHC to simply ignore the export list of a module and export everything?
That would be a nice feature to deal with this problem. The best solution I have is to separate functions that don't belong in the public interface into separate modules that aren't exposed (they're listed in the other-modules section of the .cabal file). I then add the test executable to the .cabal file, so when it's built it can access the hidden modules (or I run the test from ghci). Of course this only works if it makes sense to structure the code this way. Cheers, John