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From: Ullrich Koethe (u.koethe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-06 17:20:43


rogeeff wrote:
> > valuable standalone. Regarding CHECK_CLOSE family: I would prefer
> to
> > keep them as short form of above statements.
> >
>
> Oh! It's really cool. We now do not need nor BOOST_CHECK_NOT_EQUAL
> nor BOOST_CHECK_LESS nor any other binary predicate check as
> standalone tools. Also this mean that floating-point comparison could
> be easily factored out of Test Tools without loosing a functionallity
> (other than I won't be able to introduce any special printing only
> default operator<< will be used, so we will still have 1!= 1 and I
> won't show a tolerance, for there won't be such thing any more).
>
> Do you want me to do this?
>

As said above, provide the predicate-based macros, but keep
BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE etc. as a shorthand that also takes care of the
correct printing of floating point numbers.

Ulli

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