Re: RFC: Increment and Decrement (was Re: GDL Notice: ArithmeticOperators / Quasi-Formulae)

[Jim Kingdon <kingdon at panix dot com>]

> As it turns out, my concern was somewhat justified, after I made the
> horrific discovery this evening that I had broken negative number
> tokenization a few days ago. I have now fixed this, _but it shows that
> even the simplest hacks can produce big bugs.

That's what you get for not writing any tests :-).

Unlike many parts of xconq, writing autotest-style tests for GDL
parsing is really easy.

I suppose if I feel like writing some xconq tests, I could start with
these, rather than proceeding directly to the nastier, harder to test
things like "make sure the AI knows how to use a transport".