[racket] tests/eli-tester feedback (Was: Racket unit testing)

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 09:33:17 EST 2011

I think it is very useful to be able to test that your macro has good
syntax errors.

Jay

2011/2/17 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc-ml at zenburn.net> wrote:
>> I don't think that having to use a separate form just to test macros would
>> be a bad idea.
>
> The primary hard part about testing macros is not syntax errors, but
> writing an "alpha-equvialent-to" comparison function, which to my
> knowledge has not ever been written in Racket.
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>
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