On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:22 AM, David Luposchainsky <dluposchain...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 2013-11-07 12:52, Daniel Trstenjak wrote: >> My problem is with 'Expected' and 'Actual', that I'm often unsure if >> the compiler is "expecting" something or if I'm the expecting one >> and the same goes for "actual". > > Funny you mention it; I think I just got too used to the fact that every > time I see this error I have to take a step back to remember what it > means exactly. Renaming it to "given" or "provided" would really help.
For what it's worth, I used to have the same confusion. But after a few years it went away. Now it seems obvious and I don't really understand how I was confused before, or how I got unconfused. That's the classic problem with trying to make anything intuitive. When I write my own typecheck msgs, I always write "Function expected X, but received Y." That's not too far off from expected / actual, though at least it has an explicit subject. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
