I wonder if it would be cool to add special handli...
# striktc
christophsturm
04/07/2021, 10:24 PMI wonder if it would be cool to add special handling to isEquals failures that have the same string output.
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robfletcher
04/07/2021, 11:38 PMIt does add the type name in, but even that sometimes doesn’t help. I hit an issue the other day where I had 2 sets that toString’ed the same, and they were both sets, but the elements inside the set were different types
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christophsturm
04/08/2021, 8:17 AMI was thinking of adding a line that explains that toString can have the same output and equals still be false.
christophsturm
04/08/2021, 8:19 AMstrikt could just walk the extra mile and really find out whats going on, for example in your sets example
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robfletcher
04/08/2021, 2:03 PMyeah, I wonder. I could certainly dive deeper in the case of a map or collection
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christophsturm
04/08/2021, 2:25 PMi found this very inspiring: https://elm-lang.org/news/compiler-errors-for-humans
christophsturm
04/08/2021, 2:26 PMi could also work on improving some error messages.
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robfletcher
04/08/2021, 2:38 PMThat would be awesome. I have a bug fix I want to work on but not sure how much time I’ll be able to carve out this week
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