Ah, I mistakenly believed that ExUnit already highlighted failing pattern matches, hence my confusion. Thanks for the explanation.
On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 2:20:41 PM UTC+1, José Valim wrote: > > > >> Just wondering, is this necessary because it's impossible to list the >> function clauses or because there's no straightforward way to turn a >> function clause into one hand of a pattern match? >> > > It is necessary if we want to do things such as "diffing". For example, if > we can't match a clause because a map is missing a field, we should tell > the field that is missing when we implement such feature. This "diffing" or > "explaining" requires reimplementing pattern matching. > > -- 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/20392fb1-68eb-4183-84af-8464a1fb781b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
