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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: srfi-64 apathetic test-error
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:21:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_Qjm5=XCQ5-52htfMzEYEU3jdeOFWLyzPh8UTvkhypPDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d7fb138-a870-826f-2a68-a539c90da813@gmail.com>

Note however that such error tests are inherently non-portable (except in
R6RS systems only) and should be avoided when testing code intended to be
portable.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:20 PM Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 23.10.2019 06:37, Christopher Howard wrote:
> > Hi, I was just wondering: `test-error' from (srfi srfi-64) gives a pass
> > if it catches an exception, but it doesn't seem to care whether or not
> > the exception caught matches what you told it to expect. Is this a bug?
>
> The (test-error ...) form takes an optional "error-type" operand.  It
> can be an arbitrary predicate (one-argument procedure that returns a
> Boolean value) which tests if the error is the expected kind.
>
> See here for a complete documentation of the SRFI-64 API:
>
>     https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-64/srfi-64.html
>
> - Taylan
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-24 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-23  4:37 srfi-64 apathetic test-error Christopher Howard
2019-10-24 16:18 ` Taylan Kammer
2019-10-24 16:21   ` John Cowan [this message]
2019-10-24 16:50   ` Taylan Kammer

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