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<br><div><div>On 27 Aug 2008, at 16:35, Matt Wynne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>describe "when the address is less than two characters long" do</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>it "should be invalid" do ... end</div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>describe "when the address is more than two characters long" do</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>describe "and the address is less than 128 characters long" do</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>it "should be valid" do ... end</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>end<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>describe "and the address is more than 128 characters long" do<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>it "should be invalid" do ... end</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>end<br></div><div><br></div><div>end</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>For this, trivial, example, I find that far too verbose. </div><div><br></div><div>The "specification" says "if it is less than 2 characters then invalid" and "if it is more than 128 characters then invalid" . </div><div><br></div><div>But you are actually running three checks - "if less than 2", "if greater than 2 but less than 128" and "if greater than 2 and greater than 128". </div><div><br></div><div>B</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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