To me this feels like a good use of credo or similar linter, not something
that the Elixir compiler itself should warn about. `assert %{} = x` isn't
the most idiomatic way to match but it isn't incoherent or invalid, just
probably not best practice.
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 5:55:09 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Developers can easily shoot themselves in the foot if they write:
>
> assert %{} = x
>
> but really what they meant was to write:
>
> assert %{} == x
>
> The mistake is writing `=` instead of `==`, an easy one to make. The
> difference is of course that the former will succeed on _any_ map and the
> latter will _only_ succeed on an _empty_ map.
>
> I'd like to propose ExUnit warn on `assert %{} = x` and tell users to
> instead write `assert is_map(x)`.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> P.S. In my projects I'd either write `assert actual == expected` OR
> `assert expected = actual` and never `assert expected == actual` exactly
> because it is easy to make the mistake. Maybe there is a Credo check to
> enforce such style.
>
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