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;;; do.el --- Small assertion library for Elisp -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;; Author: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
;;; Commentary:
;; Assertion library inspired by Elixir's core testing library.
;;
;; The goal here is to create this module without relying on other non-core
;; Elisp libraries. I will attempt to do this as long as I'm not sacrificing
;; the readability of this code nor the ease at which it can be written.
;;
;; A note on testing:
;; Another goal with this library is to blur the line between testing code and
;; runtime code. Developers should ideally be using `do/assert' and `do/refute'
;; in their library code. Because of this, I'm avoiding referring
;; to the notion of testing in the names of these functions.
;;
;; Hypothesis:
;; The lower the friction is for writing tests, the more likely people will
;; write tests.
;; TODO: Support better error messages, which might include information about
;; line numbers in source code where the assertion failed.
;; TODO: Consider offering the ability to have some of these functions compile
;; to nothing at runtime if developers want to use them while developing without
;; incurring the costs at runtime.
;; TODO: Consider using this module instead of prelude.el. Right now, I'm
;; having troubling preferring one to the other. The benefit of this module is
;; that it's independent of prelude, but that might also be a downside, since
;; the messaging that asserting should be a critical part of any core library
;; like prelude.
;;; Code:
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(defmacro do/assert (x)
"Errors unless X is t.
These are strict assertions and purposely do not rely on truthiness."
(let ((as-string (format "%s" x)))
`(unless (equal t ,x)
(error (concat "Assertion failed: " ,as-string)))))
(defmacro do/refute (x)
"Errors unless X is nil."
(let ((as-string (format "%s" x)))
`(unless (eq nil ,x)
(error (concat "Refutation failed: " ,as-string)))))
(provide 'do)
;;; do.el ends here
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