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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>>  * Why "referenced" and "actual" when the code uses "expected" and "observed"? Although the former are technically correct, I don't see them as being substantially more helpful than the previous "a" and "b".
>
> Well, two things the a and b annoyed me from the get-go, and, more
> importantly, in matchers we do have a semantic difference between left
> and right, so I don't think we should obscure that.
>

I agree we shouldn't obscure the semantic difference. I have a
suspicion that the words "referenced" and "actual" won't mean much to
most test authors, even though they are technically accurate.

Let's land this, but be ready to change the labels if users report
confusion. After all, the whole point of this is to make programming
easier.

jml
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