On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
> > Thanks everybody, it is nice to see I am not alone..
> > Yes, Stef, the API is the same, but the sematics is not.
>
> why?
>
Right now the API is the method
assert: expected equals: actual
^ self
assert: (expected = actual)
description: (self comparingStringBetween: expected and: actual)
Which description message is "Expected: expected but was actual"
Now....we want to change it to:
assert: actual equals: expected
^ self
assert: (expected = actual)
description: (self comparingStringBetween: expected and: actual )
So...the only thing we change is the order in the parameters....the question
is... do you condiser that changing the API ?
Cheers
Mariano
> not? I'm confused.
>
> > I mean, I muuuch prefer to change it, but indeed, there will be a change
> in the "behavior". What I mean is that all test cases that were using
> #assert:equals: in the "correct" way (correct I mean to what SUnit says),
> then after will be "incorrect". I don't care. The only problem is that when
> they debugger the message will be incorrect.
> > But it is as always....or improve or be backward compatibility....
> >
> > So... +1 to the change
> >
> > Here is the issue tracker:
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4129
> >
> > if we finally agree, I can submit the fix.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Mariano
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Damien Cassou <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > testBlah
> > > | universalAnswer |
> > > universalAnswer := 30.
> > > universalAnswer := universalAnswer + 11.
> > > self assert: universalAnswer equals: 42.
> > >
> > > In this case, 42 is the "expected" and "universalAnswer" is the
> "actual"
> > > value.
> > > I feel weird writing like this:
> > >
> > > self assert: 42 equals: universalAnswer.
> >
> > I think I'm responsible for this non sense, sorry about that. When I
> > put the parameters in this order, I thought the result would be
> > similar to JUnit in which 'expected' is always before 'actual'.
> > Unfortunately, it looks like I just forgot to read the whole sentence:
> > 'self assert that something equals 42' reads much better than the
> > other way around. I don't think too much code depends on this
> > #assert:equals: method as it has only been introduced recently.
> >
> > I vote for changing the order.
> >
> > --
> > Damien Cassou
> > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
> >
> > "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them
> > popular by not having them." James Iry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mariano
> > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
> >
>
>
>
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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
