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

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is very useful to be able to test that your macro has good
> syntax errors.

Yes, I certainly agree.  My point was just that we have mechanisms,
albeit clunky ones, for testing this already -- for correct macro
expansions we have far fewer tools.

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> Jay
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> 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.
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>> sam th
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