On Dec 19, 4:27 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: > While we are talking about assert: I recently wanted for assert to > return the value of the expression, so I could embed asserts inside a > Fact test and get detailed reporting about what failed. > > I checked a few other functional languages and none of their asserts > return a value either. This surprised me.
My feeling about assert is that if it fails it means that a program is broken. > Should assert return its value? If not, what should I name the > function that works just like assert but returns its value? I think I'd call it "expect". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
