On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:28 PM Arthur A. Gleckler <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 1:56 AM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

> * Every test is lexically enclosed.

What does this mean precisely?
It means that there is no equivalent to SRFI 64's test-begin and test-end, which create a dynamic extent for tests that doesn't correspond to any lexical structure. I consider that a misfeature.

Yes, I agree that that's a mistake. I think you should have said that every test *group* is lexically enclosed.

I consider having test names be optional a misfeature. Not only are names an important form of documentation, but having them makes it easy to run specific subsets of tests.

+1 as well.

I consider it essential. Requiring one to look through the output to determine whether something has failed and what exactly has failed is a big mistake.

A runner that saves the failure messages and repeats them at the end is a good compromise.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan xxxxxx@ccil.org
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