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Probably, yes. They get a bit less useful, but they also get a bit easier to write.

And the point of unit tests isn't really to smoke out every possible problem: it's to give you confidence in your code, so you can say "This will work" instead of "This should work". Functional programs still need some sort of test suite to achieve this confidence.




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