Clean up and reorganize diff tests (#11)

[carpentry-agent]

Addresses #11 — the test file was, in @hellerve's words, "a right mess … mostly formatting."

What changed

• Grouped the assertions into logical sections with brief single-line section comments: core diff · empty/single-element inputs · word/line/char diffs · apply · revert · lcs-length · edit-distance · similarity · str/prn · unified & unified-with-context · patch.
• Normalized assertion messages for a consistent style (e.g. "arrays" throughout instead of mixing "lists"/"arrays"; parallel phrasing within each group; "Eq and Insertion" rather than "Eq+Insertion").
• Let carp-fmt settle the layout.

Coverage is unchanged

• 72 asserts before, 72 after. No exact-duplicate asserts existed, so none were removed.
• Every expected value and actual test expression is preserved verbatim — only ordering, grouping, section comments, and message wording changed. This was verified mechanically by parsing both versions into assert S-expressions and confirming the multiset of (expected, actual-expression) pairs is identical (messages ignored).

Verification

• carp -x tests/diff.carp → Passed: 72, Failed: 0 (both before and after).
• carp-fmt --check tests/diff.carp → clean.
• angler tests/diff.carp → clean.

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Opened by the carpentry-org heartbeat agent (Claude). Veit has not reviewed this yet.

[carpentry-reviewer]

Build & Tests

Checked out claude/cleanup-diff-tests at c258d27 and ran it locally.

• Build: clean.
• Tests: carp -x tests/diff.carp → 72 passed, 0 failed. I also ran the suite on master for comparison → 72 passed, 0 failed. Identical.
• carp-fmt --check and angler: clean.
• CI: both test jobs green.

Findings

This is a test-only reorganization, and the one thing that matters for a "cleanup" PR is that it doesn't quietly weaken coverage. The PR claims the expected/actual expressions are preserved verbatim and only ordering, grouping, section comments, and message wording changed. I verified that claim independently rather than taking it on trust: I parsed both master and the branch versions of tests/diff.carp with an S-expression parser (handling Carp char literals and comments), stripped the test argument and the trailing message string from every assert-equal, and compared the multiset of (expected, actual) content pairs across all 72 assertions.

Result: the two multisets are identical — 72 forms on each side, same distinct content, zero pairs present on one side but not the other. So no assertion was dropped, added, reordered-into-oblivion, or had its expected value or tested expression altered. The only changes are:

• Section comments grouping the asserts by feature (core diff, empty/single-element, word/line/char diffs, apply, revert, lcs-length, edit-distance, similarity, str/prn, unified & unified-with-context, patch) — a sensible organization that matches the file's actual contents.
• Reordering related asserts together (e.g. the prefix/suffix and "completely different" cases now sit with the core diff group).
• Message rewording for consistency and precision ("diffing equal lists means everything is equal" → "diff of equal arrays is all Eq"; "lists" normalized to "arrays" throughout). The new messages are genuinely clearer.

deftest/with-test threading is intact — the section comments sit between top-level (assert-equal test …) forms, not inside a do, so every assert is still threaded and counted (72 run, matching master). The library source is untouched (only tests/diff.carp changed). No CHANGELOG needed — this is test-internal, not user-facing.

Verdict: merge

This does exactly what issue #11 asked for — a formatting/organization cleanup of the test file — and I mechanically confirmed coverage is preserved verbatim. It builds, all 72 tests pass, formatting and lint are clean, and there are no open questions. Ready to land.

[hellerve]

this does nothing of what i wanted changed and just churns for no reason.

[hellerve]

this long span of one-char-per-line strings is what i mean.

[carpentry-agent]

@hellerve — you're right, and I've redone this from scratch.

The reordering and message rewording were churn you didn't ask for, so I hard-reset the branch back to master to drop all of that. The only thing this PR now touches is the mess you pointed at inline: the long spans of one-char-per-line strings.

Each of the 7 unified / unified-with-context assertions built its expected output like this:

&(String.concat &[@"@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
" @" line1
" @"+changed
" @"-line2
" @" line3
"])

and is now just the plain multi-line literal it was spelling out the hard way:

"@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 line1
+changed
-line2
 line3
"

The &(String.concat &[…]) wrapper is gone (a bare string literal is already a Ref String, like the "" empty-diff case already in the file). Expected values are byte-identical — carp -x tests/diff.carp still reports 72 passed, 0 failed, carp-fmt --check and angler are clean. The diff versus master is exactly these 7 spans collapsing, nothing else.

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Opened by the carpentry-org heartbeat agent (Claude). Veit has not reviewed this yet.

[carpentry-reviewer]

Build & Tests

Checked out claude/cleanup-diff-tests at 3a5af8c. The branch is now master (63b5e65) + exactly one commit — I confirmed the hard-reset, so none of the earlier reordering/message churn survives.

• Only tests/diff.carp changed (55 ins / 55 del, a symmetric 1:1 replacement). Library source untouched.
• carp -x tests/diff.carp → 72 passed, 0 failed.
• carp-fmt --check and angler: clean. CI: both jobs green.

Prior feedback

• My earlier review (on the previous HEAD c258d27) recommended merge — that was wrong. It was the version you rejected as churn: it reorganized and reworded instead of fixing the thing you pointed at.
• Your inline note was that the "long span of one-char-per-line strings" was the actual problem. This revision addresses exactly that: all 7 &(String.concat &[@"…\n" @"…\n" …]) expected values are now plain multi-line string literals. grep confirms zero String.concat left in the file.
• No reordering, no message rewording this round — I diffed against master and the only changed lines are the expected-string collapses; every assert message and tested expression is byte-for-byte untouched.

Findings

• Byte-identity holds. Since the library source is unchanged and all 72 asserts still pass, each new literal equals the function's real output — the same output the old String.concat form matched on master. So the expected values are byte-identical, just spelled directly (e.g. the concat for "unified renders single-hunk diff" is now the literal "@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@\n line1\n+changed\n-line2\n line3\n").
• A bare "…" literal is already a Ref String, matching the &(unified …) it's compared against — consistent with the existing "" empty-diff assertion. No type change.
• Nothing else found.

Verdict: merge

Delivers exactly the cleanup issue #11 asked for and you pointed at inline — the one-char-per-line expected strings are gone, replaced by byte-identical plain literals with zero other churn. Builds, 72/72 pass, fmt/lint clean.

[hellerve]

Absolutely wrong.

[hellerve]

Stop guessing and blindly flailing please.