On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:22 AM, David Luposchainsky
On 2013-11-07 12:52, Daniel Trstenjak wrote:
My problem is with 'Expected' and 'Actual', that I'm often unsure if the compiler is "expecting" something or if I'm the expecting one and the same goes for "actual".
Funny you mention it; I think I just got too used to the fact that every time I see this error I have to take a step back to remember what it means exactly. Renaming it to "given" or "provided" would really help.
For what it's worth, I used to have the same confusion. But after a few years it went away. Now it seems obvious and I don't really understand how I was confused before, or how I got unconfused. That's the classic problem with trying to make anything intuitive. When I write my own typecheck msgs, I always write "Function expected X, but received Y." That's not too far off from expected / actual, though at least it has an explicit subject.