Does anyone know of something like a basic test su...
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Justin Blank
03/22/2023, 10:37 PMDoes anyone know of something like a basic test suite for developing a language?
My idea is that in addition to building up test cases that implement specific functionality, what if I had a corpus of programs and a source to source compiler I could retarget to my new language?
I can think of a lot of things that would make this hard—mutability vs immutability, semantics of basic data types, etc.
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Jack Rusher
03/23/2023, 11:40 AMWikiFunctions! cc @Denny Vrandečić
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George
03/23/2023, 11:57 AMI think i have something that you could look at. I was tangentially involved with an implementation of the reactive-streams spec that was incorporated into java 1.9.
http://www.reactive-streams.org/
George
03/23/2023, 11:58 AMlook at the section “A Note for Implementors”
George
03/23/2023, 12:03 PMIts a very simple collection of 3 interfaces that you have to implement but they have complex runtime behavior.
George
03/23/2023, 12:08 PMyou look at the 250 closed giihub issues to get a sense of the amount of work went into trying to make the rules concise, accurate and complete.
https://github.com/reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm
George
03/23/2023, 12:11 PMfor the testing part of your question they then developed a test suite call TCK that is a requirement to get this spec incorporated into java.
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Justin Blank
03/23/2023, 12:32 PMThanks
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Joshua Horowitz
03/23/2023, 6:57 PMnot exactly what you’re looking for, but https://rosettacode.org/ seems useful.
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