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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ERT: should-error doesn't catch failed assertions
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:42:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8660s393pk.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874m7n972o.fsf@gmail.com

Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:

> As described on that page, I see (should-error
> (/ 1 0)) evaluate to (arith-error).

OK, gotcha:

    (require 'ert)
    (should-error (/ 1 0))

> But assertion failures seem to not count as
> "errors" as far as should-error is concerned.

Why do you want to combine `should-error' with
`assert' and what result is it that you expect?

    (should-error (cl-assert (/ 1 0)))

?

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-17 22:24 ERT: should-error doesn't catch failed assertions Sean McAfee
2016-07-17 22:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-07-17 23:29   ` Sean McAfee
2016-07-18  0:42     ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-07-18  4:19 ` Noam Postavsky

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