On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6 May 2010 19:32, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That doesn't, unfortunately, solve the concern Mark states above. What we'd like
>> to have is capability to say
>> Assert((5 + 6 + 7) == 18);
> well, having a look at the code, that wouldn't be that useful. In many
> case some Boolean is computed and the assertion tests that Boolean.

With the above example, you could show _how_ the boolean is computed.
That assert would print stuff like

"Assertion failed at foobar.java:123: ((5 + 6 + 8) == 18)"

or

"Assertion failed at foobar.java:666: (verifyBlackMagic(1, 2, 3, 4))"

Yes, but I think what's needed is more like:

        if (p.host != NIL) {
            if (p.host instanceof SimpleString) {
                host = new SimpleString(((SimpleString)p.host).getStringValue());
            } else  if (p.host instanceof Symbol) {
                host = p.host;
            } else if (p.host instanceof Cons) {
                host = new Cons((Cons)p.host);
            } else {
                Debug.assertTrue(false);
==> 
                Debug.fail("Expected pathname host of '"+ p + "' to be a string, symbol, or cons");

-Alan

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