From: David Holroyd <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T01:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: assert_false

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:09:24AM +0900, Jason Roelofs wrote:
> On 9/26/06, aidy <aidy.rutter@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Does anyone know why assert_false is not inlcuded in Test:Unit, but for
> >e.g. assertFalse( ) is a method in JUnit?
> 
> The same reason there's no assert_true? It's redundant, IMO.
> 
> assert truth
> assert !truth
> assert (not truth)

Yet Ruby has both 'if' and 'unless' keywords.

I think it wuld be nice if the inverted version of the Assertions
methods were named 'deny', e.g. deny_nil vs. assert_not_nil.  ;)


ta,
dave

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