Even for people that have no prior knowledge of what *lhs *or *rhs* mean, I think that their usage in ExUnit's output is self-explanatory. When someone sees a failed test result for the first time, they will instantly be able to see that we're talking about the two sides of the assert statement, even if the abbreviations are new.
~Wiebe-Marten On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 6:38:33 AM UTC+2, Antonio Cangiano wrote: > > Elixir tends to score quite well on the usability scale, however, > displaying lhs and rhs in test results is not really user-friendly. > > I would suggest renaming them to more user-friendly options. Someone on > Hacker News suggested expected and actual. Incidentally, those are the > labels used by Clojure. Haskell (HUnit) uses expected and but got. Either > would be clearer. It is a small improvement, but every little bit helps. > > > Thoughts? > > > Best, > Antonio > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/a5a85d92-c70f-4615-9327-16cba5afe8a8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
