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		throw_m239339 on Oct 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prefer Fakes over Mocks > Anyway, why do you claim any of that is specific to OOP? There is no need for Mocks or Fakes with pure functions.

marcosdumay on Oct 15, 2020 [–]

And in what paradigm do your programs consist of only pure functions? Certainly not on FP, where IO is explicitly added to a lot of code.

Anyway, there isn't much difference between mocking a unity and passing some static data into your functions and comparing the results with the expected ones.

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