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Re: unescaped character literals


From: John Mastro
Subject: Re: unescaped character literals
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 11:11:14 -0800

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> Why does one use `should' ?
>
>     (should FORM)
>
>     Evaluate FORM. If it returns nil, abort the
>     current test as failed.
>
>     Returns the value of FORM.
>
> Isn't that what plain `or' do?

`should' is part of ERT, a testing tool. That's what the docstring is
referring to when it says "abort the current test as failed".

See (info "(ERT)")

        John



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