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1. Re: How to test "error"? (Hilco Wijbenga)
2. Re: How to test "error"? (Hilco Wijbenga)
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:24:09 -0700
From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] How to test "error"?
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No, I don't think you should use Either/Maybe to anticipate bugs. If
your code could _legitimately_ fail (it's just something that follows
from your domain) then Maybe/Either are appropriate. Otherwise, some
sort of exception or "error" is more appropriate. E.g., if your domain
knowledge tells you that zeroes are impossible then you would not want
every division to return a Maybe just because division by zero is not
defined. _Because that should never happen._
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:44 AM Michele Alzetta
<michele.alze...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As beginner to beginner, so take this with a kg of salt ... isn't what
> you're looking for a construction of the Either sort?
>
> That way you get Right and Left and you can check for Left.
>
>
>
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>
> Il giorno mar 11 giu 2019 alle ore 05:45 Hilco Wijbenga
> <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a function that may call "error" if the input represents a bug
>> in my program. (Think something like PositiveInt -1; this should never
>> happen so Maybe or Either are not applicable.)
>>
>> f :: Whatever
>> f = error "This should never happen."
>>
>> spec :: Spec
>> spec =
>> describe "f" $
>> it "error" $
>> return f `shouldThrow` anyErrorCall
>>
>> The above does not work, I get "did not get expected exception:
>> ErrorCall". Using "anyException" doesn't work either.
>>
>> How can I write a test for this? And (assuming I can get the test to
>> work), how do I check that the error message is indeed what I expect?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hilco
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:26:03 -0700
From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com>
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Yes, "evaluate" does the trick. Thank you.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:39 AM Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> wrote:
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> Hello Hilco,
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 08:44:30PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> > f :: Whatever
> > f = error "This should never happen."
> >
> > spec :: Spec
> > spec =
> > describe "f" $
> > it "error" $
> > return f `shouldThrow` anyErrorCall
>
> import qualified Control.Exception as E
>
> and
>
> E.evaluate tt' f `shouldThrow` anyErrorCall
>
> should work. Does this work?
> -F
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