
I just uploaded a new version of doctest[1] to Hackage. WHAT IS doctest? ================ doctest is a port of Python's doctest[2] to Haskell. It can be used to verify, that examples in Haddock comments[3] do still work. This also provides you with a simple mechanism to write unit test, without the burden of maintaining a dedicated test suite. A basic example of usage is at [4]. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION? =========================== It is now possible to intersperse comments between a longer, continuing example. All examples within the same comment now share a namespace. The following now works : -- | Calculate Fibonacci number of given 'Num'. -- -- First let's set `n` to ten: -- -- >>> let n = 10 -- -- And now calculate the 10th Fibonacci number: -- -- >>> fib n -- 55 fib :: Integer -> Integer fib 0 = 0 fib 1 = 1 fib n = fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2) Thanks to Sakari Jokinen for this contribution! In addition I changed the name from DocTest to doctest. I think using all lower-case package names is a good thing. And as we will use doctest as a library in the near future, this was the last chance for this change. Cheers, Simon [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/doctest [2] http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html [3] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html#id566093 [4] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/DocTest