Clojurians Log v2

can someone help explain to me why clojure.test isn’t trying to compare the evaluation of a function I’ve written?

expected: (= (hello_world) "Hello World!")
  actual: (not (= "Hello, World!" "Hello World!"))

I think you may be misunderstanding the output

the expected shows the forms, the actual shows the values

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since the actual values in the form make it much easier to see what made the test fail, usually

the actual output is what I want, not what I want expected

the expected part is also useful, because it shows me exactly what form was evaluated to get a given value

(though of course you can easily see that by reading the test)

yeah I know! But the thing that’s confusing me is the expected output is more literal than I want

I fix this with a let block

I just want to test that the string the hello_world function returns is “Hello World!”

that is what you are testing...

okay that’s what I thought - then why is it returning false?

because one has a comma in it

there's a plugin, "lein difftest" that highlights data differences in assertions btw

oh wow that’s a stupid mistake

it works with the tests you have already, it just uses different output formats to make it more clear

thanks for the info / second set of eye balls

that’s great I didn’t know about that!