Feature Request: Hashed Based Assertion

[tcak via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 16:18:52 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 08:09:27 UTC, tcak wrote:
>> Yours are not helping, making everything more complex.
>
> Yes, because to achieve what you're asking for, you NEED a 
> complex solution.
>
> The code WILL change with every release..thats the point of a 
> release.. so any hashing mechanism like you're describing will 
> just trigger every time, making it useless. Even if this was 
> not the case, you still wouldn't know where the changes were.
>
>     Bit

Let me explain:

It is not complex. What makes it complex is that you envision a 
very detailed thing.

Hash of a Function = MD5( Token List of Function /* but ignore 
comments */ );


You do not have to know where the changes are. You need to know 
what has changed,
how it acts currently briefly.


If behaviour of code changes, it is good that you know it. With 
above hashing method, a piece of code that hasn't changed would 
have same hash value always. And
if you do not like it, don't check the hash value. Just continue 
writing your codes as you wish. But in business perspective, if 
the software's consistency is worth millions of dollars, a 
software engineer would want it to be giving error whenever
codes change. Do we want D to be a child language, or have more 
useful features?