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Spec has it's place, but I think people are trying to shovel spec in all sort of places; for example, heavy data parsing, making code very hard to track. Remind

by dig1 6y ago

Spec has it's place, but I think people are trying to shovel spec in all sort of places; for example, heavy data parsing, making code very hard to track. Reminds me on core.logic movement couple of years ago, where everyone tried to have own parser/ui/whatever written in it, resulting very unreadable code. What I'm really missing from spec is ability to disable it with flag or property, like "assert" macro. Sometimes I just want piece of code to run as fast as possible with less bytecode and instructions executed.

StreamBright 6y ago
Code readability is massively underrated.
jgalt212 6y ago
Isn't spec just a way to bolt on types to a dynamic language? And if you look at this way, can one have its cake and eat it too?
- nickik 6y ago
  Thinking about Spec like a type-system is really not the right way to think. Its more dynamic validation system that works like regex for data-structures.
  - jgalt212 6y ago
    unless you think about types the way Haskell does.