From: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@...>
Date: 2008-01-30T02:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: assert{ 2.0 } - a new kind of assertion

> So I wrote an assertion to replace them. Put whatever you want
> into it; it prints out your expression, and all its values.

Nice.

The one comment I have is that I generally write assertions with the
assumption that the programmer will read the failure in conjunction
with the code that failed (in many development environments, the code
is a single click away, at least for java, not as sure about ruby).
So that somewhat mitigates the need for this.  But I could see this
feature if the development environment doesn't make it that easy, or
for some of the other features (I think the above-mentioned code will
be more helpful on something like assert { x == y }, printing both x
and y with names).