`ludic help` ended with a section titled "contributing to the toolchain itself", listing bootstrap, reseed, docs-gen and release tasks. None of that is available to someone who installed the language — those tasks need the repository — so the shipped tool was advertising work its user cannot do, in a namespace they have to read past to find `new` and `run`. The tasks move to a second program, dev.ludic -> bin/ludic-dev, built from a checkout and excluded from every release artifact. `ludic` keeps the project and package commands and nothing else; `ludic dev …` now explains where the tasks went instead of failing as an unknown command. What this shook out: the two programs share prelude/build/project/pkg, so the helpers each had accreted in whichever file first needed them — cc(), ensure_ludicc, the string functions, title_case, cmd_version — moved to where both can see them. The argument-shift indirection added for the `dev` namespace is gone with the namespace, so commands read argv directly again. `ludic-dev test` asserts the split rather than trusting it: the staged install must build a project, and `ludic dev build` there must fail while naming ludic-dev. install.sh keeps building older tags, whose bootstrap goes through main.ludic. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| id | name | category | kind | tokens | sig | tip | order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kw-test | test | testing | keyword | test | test "name" { … } | A named test block, run automatically with pass/fail reporting. | 1 |
A test "name" { … } block declares a named test. Every test in a file is discovered automatically and run by a generated entry point — there is no entry to write and nothing to register. The runner prints ok - name for a test whose assertions all held and FAIL - name for one that had a failure, then a == N passed, M failed == summary, and the program exits non-zero if any test failed. Writing a test should feel like writing a function: put a few assertions in a block and run it.
Assertions (each records a failure and prints file:line: … failed but keeps going, so one run reports every failure):
expect(cond)— the booleancondmust be true.expect_eq(a, b)—amust equalb; on failure prints(got a, want b).expect_near(a, b, tol)—amust be withintolofb(absolute). Use it forfixed-point results and accumulated integer math, where an exact match is too brittle.
Run a spec file directly with the compiler-runner — ludic mymath_test.ludic compiles it to a native binary, runs it, and forwards the pass/fail exit code — so it drops straight into bin/ludic and CI.
Line coverage. Compile with the --coverage flag and the compiler instruments every statement with a per-source-line hit counter; at exit the counts are written to the file named by $LUDIC_COVERAGE (default ludic.cov) as a FILE <name> header followed by one <line> <hits> row per instrumented line. The instrumentation is flag-gated and additive, so an ordinary build — and the compiler's own self-compile — stays byte-identical. bin/ludic-dev test --coverage compiles the test specs this way, runs them, and aggregates the dumps into a per-file report that names the lines your tests never reached:
== line coverage (bin/ludic-dev test --coverage) ==
examples/library/coverage.ludic 16/17 lines 94% uncovered: 33
examples/library/testing.ludic 17/17 lines 100%
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total: 33/34 lines 97%
program MathSpec {
function add(a: int, b: int) -> int { return a + b }
test "addition adds" {
expect_eq(add(2, 3), 5)
expect(add(1, 1) == 2)
}
test "fixed math is close enough" {
let half = fixed(1) / 2 # 0.5 in Q16.16
expect_near(half, 32768, 2) # within 2 raw units of 0.5
}
}