On 9 July 2013 16:42, Clément Bera <[email protected]> wrote: > They may be useful. Imagine you are too lazy to create a subclass of Error, > but not lazy enough to create a test and copy paste a String. > Then you write in your method: > self error: 'some strange error happened' > And you can test it: > self shouldnt: [ "some strange code" ] raise: Error > whoseDescriptionIncludes: 'some strange error happened' description: 'the > strange error did not happen ! That's strange' > > Seriously, as you saw these methods are used only in their tests. I guess > you can remove them. Open fogz bug ?
If something should not raise a KeyNotFound exception, which would you regard as more useful: "KeyNotFound" or "'foo' key not found" ? frank > 2013/7/9 Frank Shearar <[email protected]> >> >> On 9 July 2013 16:24, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Survey: who uses the following methods? and if yes why? >> > >> > - shouldnt: aBlock raise: anExceptionalEvent >> > whoseDescriptionDoesNotInclude: subString description: aString >> > - shouldnt: aBlock raise: anExceptionalEvent whoseDescriptionIncludes: >> > subString description: aString >> > >> > I honestly cannot wrap my head around these two methods. >> >> They show that the code in the block raises an _informative_ >> exception. So you get a FileNotFound exception... but what was the >> missing file? I don't know! Noone bothered to mention it! >> >> frank >> >
