Intended use of expected-failure?

[kchanqvq]

I have used this macro in some of my tests, assuming it's just the inverse of test -- if we expect expr signal an error according to the standard, then I write (expected-failure expr).

However I realized this might not be the intended use looking at tests/read.lisp. It seems that the macro is intended to mark tests that are supposed to past, but fail for now due to non-compliance?

@davazp can you clarify?

If this is the case I'll rewrite these tests with (test (not (ignore-errors expr t))) (or feel free to suggest better pattern). In any case I'll add some comment/docstring to the macro to clarify it.

[davazp]

Good catch.

I don't remember unfortunately the original intention. It is not a great name.

Maybe we define expected-failure to be regular expected failures, and create a new (unsupported-yet expr) or similar?

Feel free to adjust it as needed.