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

20 minutes ago, Stephen Bloch wrote:
> 
> On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 
> > ... the bottom line is that the test of "non-#f" is very common --
> > so I really don't want to force people to write some verbose
> > 
> >  (test (and E #t) => #t)
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >  (test (not (not E)) => #t)
> > 
> > or even
> > 
> >  (test (true? E) => #t)
> 
> But this "verbose" solution is still not significantly longer than
> the nested "test" you propose.

It's verbose in that there is `true?' and `#t'.


> In any case, wouldn't
> 
> (test E /=> #f)
> 
> be even shorter and clearer?

I find `/=>' extremely confusing.  If it means a simple "does not
evaluate to", then what happens when E throws an error?

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