Broken functions references in math chapter

[BenBout]

Hello, at v7c step in chapter math, some functions references are broken.

func simpleTime(hours, minutes, seconds int) time.Time {
	return time.Date(312, time.October, 28, hours, minutes, seconds, 0, time.UTC)
}

func testName(t time.Time) string {
	return t.Format("15:04:05")
}

• These functions are privates and declared in the file math/v7c/clockface/clockface_test.go which is in package clockface.
• These functions are called in math/v7c/clockface/clockface_acceptance_test.go which is in package clockface_test. We can't call them as they are privates functions from clockface package.

The problem is : we don't want these functions to be public in clockface package.
As go developper, how do you resolve properly this issue ? Do you create a common package for test utility functions, used by clockface_test and clockface package ?

[maker2413]

I ran into this as well. It was never mentioned in the book, but you can see in the sample code that simpleTime and testName have been recreated in the clockface_acceptance_test.go file: https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests/blob/main/math/v7c/clockface/clockface_acceptance_test.go#L76-L82

Ultimately either this logic has to be changed for the code to work or the book's text will have to be updated to state that these functions should copy pasted in the acceptance test file.