On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> >> On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Robby Findler wrote: >> >>> No problem. That's what drdr is for! :) >>> >>> But I'll go ahead and add you to the relevant test suites reporting. >>> >>> You might want to try them out, just so you get a sense (they're >>> really testing the integration of the teaching langauges into >>> drracket, so the precise wording is incidnental; they're trying to >>> make sure they get a beginner error and not a full language error). >> >> >> In that case, the test might just be checking for the >> wrong property. Shouldn't we change this, especially for >> precise wordings of error reports? (When Guillaume takes >> over, we'll see even more of this.) > > The test should test that the error message is one that is supposed to > come from the beginner language. I don't really see a better way to do > that other than just to edit the messages when they change. (DrDr has > made this process MUCH easier than it was before.) Refactor the error message machinery into a separate file (like I did for the teachpacks) and use this single point for both raising and checking error messages. But I don't understand why drracket tests for error messages. When you know the right language is running can't you trust its tests? -- Matthias _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
