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		jimmyspice on Nov 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) Well the fluent style is more verbose, but has the advantage of telling you more information about what went wrong. You get a report telling you that "x was not equal to y" rather than "expected true". The verbosity is way more helpful to me.

polityagent on Nov 4, 2018 | [–]

or you can use a language with macros, then a testing library can report the code being evaluated and the values in it.

sidlls on Nov 4, 2018 | [–]

Even Java has testing libraries that provide optional failure case messages with asserts to provide specific context where necessary.

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