[rspec-users] Down with Lambda!!

[Shane Mingins]

On 18/11/2007, at 1:01 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> We're still writing Ruby here, aren't we!!!
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>


Wanted to share my initial reaction to your Ruby statement.

Are we writing Ruby here?  Or are we writing specifications?  Are we  
not using the power of the Ruby language to construct a DSL that  
allows us to construct specifications about the behaviour of our code?

Wouldn't the ideal be that I could create Behaviour specifications  
using RSpec or JSpec or CSpec (or whatever) using language that is  
natural to writing specifications?  So something like lambda ...  
which is a word I always have trouble typing ;-) ... would not seem  
natural to the domain of BDD?

These were just my initial thoughts :-)

On the actual implementation side ... if I really wanted doing in my  
specs I would add the one line and not really care too much that this  
is what I need to do.

Cheers
Shane