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		scott_s on July 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Confession of a Haskell Hacker I agree. I claim that he knows that it works under the circumstance that he has tested, and can be more confident that it will work in circumstances similar to what he has tested.

zopa on July 9, 2012 [–]

True. But with very general code, like this library, it would be difficult for unit tests to cover more than a small fraction of the domain.

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