I like this idea. In your implementation, wouldn’t `inspect/1` do the same as your `literally/1`, more or less?
```elixir iex(3)> inspect(&String.capitalize/1) "&String.capitalize/1" ``` -a On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:21 PM Florian Neumann <florian.brei...@gmail.com> wrote: > The example for ExUnit's "Case.describe/2" > <https://hexdocs.pm/ex_unit/ExUnit.Case.html#describe/2-examples> uses a > String to reference to the given Function in test: > > describe "String.capitalize/1" do... > > Changes to the actual implementation (names, arity) are currently not > picked up by the compiler or test frameworks. > > To help myself out i wrote a helper function "literally/1" which accepts a > function as parameter and turns it into a fully qualified function capture > string: > > describe literally(&String.capitalize/1) do... > > This removes potential code smells when referring to functions. > > Having a dedicated function for this adds a lot of clutter (every describe > line get's expanded and you have to maintain that helper function in each > project). > > So if this is something improving the developer experience for anybody > else i'd like to propose the additional acceptance of function-captures as > first parameter of describe/2: > > describe &String.capitalize/1 do... > > P.s.: i hope i got the terms function capture for function references > right. > > -- > 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 elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/3b47d4bf-4e91-4896-8549-a9ffab5890a0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/3b47d4bf-4e91-4896-8549-a9ffab5890a0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Austin Ziegler • halosta...@gmail.com • aus...@halostatue.ca http://www.halostatue.ca/ • http://twitter.com/halostatue -- 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 elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAJ4ekQsGnaRYP%2Bs8cBsUjYP%2BT%3DzZMtj-ajymwGJZVP_ty2FdXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
