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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
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Expecting Exceptions, 4th paragraph |
Sorry, the page number is incorrect, but I could not find the page number in the safari books online version.
In https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/spock-up-and/9781491923283/ch03.html, section "Expecting Exceptions", paragraph 4, the text is describing the leftShift operator, but the second sentence reads "Groovy enhances the collection API to allow elements to be appended using >>."
Above, note that the sentence ends with a rightShift operator. I think it should be corrected to be a leftShift operator.
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Priya Natarajan |
Jan 22, 2019 |
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Chapter 6, Code block: ANTIPATTERN: TESTING VARIANTS BY USING LOOPS |
Sorry, the page number is incorrect, but I could not find the page number in the safari books online version.
In https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/spock-up-and/9781491923283/ch06.html, in the code block "Antipattern: Testing Variants by Using Loops", last bullet point reads
"We’re confusing action and assertion in our test. The primary thing being asserted
is that a RegistrationException is thrown, but the validation of that happening is part of the where: block. There’s no way for us to use Spock’s thrown method to validate multiple exceptions thrown from the where: block, so we have no choice..."
Above, both instances of "where:" should be "when:", I think.
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Priya Natarajan |
Jan 22, 2019 |
| Printed |
Page 326
Spaceship Operator section, 1st sentence |
At this location there is a thing called the "spaceship operator", which is a circle with a dot in the center.
This circle-dot icon appears in dozens of locations in the book, and does not seem to have a consistent meaning.
For example, I think it first shows up on p 14 in the "Label Syntax" box, where there is the following line of code:
if (--i == <circle-dot-icon>) {
break loop;
}
What does this mean?
Is there an online copy of this book that I can get access to in order to understand the content of the printed book I purchased on Amazon a week ago?
I mean I bought this book, because I need to use it, but this circle-dot-icon seems to appear all over the place, replacing something that might be meaningful. This renders the book nearly useless.
Unless, of course, the circle-dot actually means something, in which case I'd like to know what it means.
Thanks,
Rich
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Rich Levinson |
Mar 06, 2019 |