From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2009-03-31T03:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world

On Mar 30, 2:12 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ara Howard wrote:
> >>  assert_equal 42, ultimate.answer, "name"
>
> > you can basically do that too, but i continually forget which is
> > expected and which is actual and, as you know, that's a slippery error
> > to track down at times.
>
> Perhaps - but it's one rule that only needs to be learned once.

I disagree. I 'learn' it each time I look at it, and then I forget it.
I think possibly because I think it's backwards.

The same goes for alias_method for me. I cannot tell you how many
times I've had to look up the order of old_name/new_name. And with
this, it's certainly because I think the values are backwards. (I just
had to look up the order to be sure.)