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Not right now, but that would be nice. How about a flag or environment variable on the command line, e.g. SPECS='Foo.*' pulp test?

Thanks!

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That would be cool as well, but I can see more use if I could do it from code. The reason being that if I have pulp -w test running, I change this setting mid-way through.

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I just had a look through the code, I think adding this would be hard because each it block immediately executes if I am not mistaken. I think this whole project would be a perfect match for the Free monad? What do you think? I would be keen to do some work for the learning experience.

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Yes, I agree, getting that lazy execution of tests is something that I've wanted to do. The current design makes it quirky to implement the Mocha reporter and support async, I think that might be simpler with a Free monad design as well.

If you'd like to have a stab at it that would be great!

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@felixSchl Did you try anything out with the Free monad?

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Nothing worth mentioning. I still think it's something very desirable to have, I just didn't have the time to invest into it. Not sure if the Free monad would work, how would you capture the arbitrary user code that runs as part of it in a data type?

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I guess the ADT would need to keep that Aff value and run it on interpretation. Would be cool to investigate this track. I have so little time right now, though. 😞

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Alternatively we could put it behind a function: Unit -> Aff _ _

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Sure, that may be the best way.

If we could sync a time then maybe we could hack on this over Skype, hangouts or whatever?

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At least to have some starting point.

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yeah hangouts would be best, I'm not big on skype. It's just this email address.

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I'm closing this as we're not currently progressing. If we want to try the Free monad approach later on I think that's a bigger redesign. Thanks!

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