[racket] plai test/exn

Ah! Why don't they state that they shadow "error" in the documentation?
Isn't that considered bad form? And worse, undocumented bad form!

Everything I was taught in school by idealistic Racket programmers is
crashing down before my eyes! I might as well be coding in C.

But seriously, this should be in the docs.

Jeremy


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> And that's what it means by "user code"
>
> Jay
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Eric Dobson <endobson at cs.brown.edu>
> wrote:
> > Also IIRC test/exn only works on errors raised using 'error' from
> > PLAI, which is different from 'error' from racket/base.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, John Clements
> > <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Jeremy Kun wrote:
> >>
> >>> Not sure if this is a bug, but it doesn't match the documentation here.
> It says test/exn only succeeds when the error is explicitly raised by the
> user, but I try something as simple as:
> >>>
> >>> "file1.rkt"
> >>> (provide foo)
> >>> (define (foo) (error "hello"))
> >>>
> >>> "file2.rkt"
> >>> (require plai "file1.rkt")
> >>> (test/exn (foo) "hello")
> >>>
> >>> and the test fails with "no expected value". I can even replace "hello"
> with a call to error, and see that that argument is never evaluated. So by
> user-written code, I'm assuming they mean code contained in the same module.
> Or am I missing something fundamental about Racket's idea of "user-written
> code"?
> >>
> >> Just a quick look, but it looks like you're failing to thunk the
> arguments to test/exn, so it never even gets control.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
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