Comment 2 for bug 671797
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| Stephane Mikaty (eCircle AG) (s-mikaty) wrote Re: [Bug 671797] Re: Condition.check is evil | #2 |
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(Get the code!)
check is a verb that suggests something nasty will happen if the outcome
of the test is failure (akin to "assert").
Would you write this?
if assert ...
...
end
On 11/06/2010 02:23 PM, edA-qa wrote:
> "Condition.check" by design works exactly as "Check" does, but instead
> of throwing an exception sets the return value. Though it may seem like
> a good idea to make it return immediately, under many normal use cases
> it won't work.
>
> The checkNot condition however does not wait (as it can't make sense).
> Therefore you could use it as a non-waiting condition:
>
> if ! checkNot ...
>
> We could easily add an alternate checkNoWait condition if that would be
> cleared.
>
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