bors 6abe64871e Auto merge of #39116 - mgattozzi:better-string-message, r=nrc
Add clearer error message using `&str + &str`

This is the first part of #39018. One of the common things for new users
coming from more dynamic languages like JavaScript, Python or Ruby is to
use `+` to concatenate strings. However, this doesn't work that way in
Rust unless the first type is a `String`. This commit adds a check for
this use case and outputs a new error as well as a suggestion to guide
the user towards the desired behavior. It also adds a new test case to
test the output of the error.
2017-02-02 07:39:07 +00:00
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2017-01-20 08:35:50 -08:00

Guide to the UI Tests

The UI tests are intended to capture the compiler's complete output, so that we can test all aspects of the presentation. They work by compiling a file (e.g., hello_world/main.rs), capturing the output, and then applying some normalization (see below). This normalized result is then compared against reference files named hello_world/main.stderr and hello_world/main.stdout. If either of those files doesn't exist, the output must be empty. If the test run fails, we will print out the current output, but it is also saved in build/<target-triple>/test/ui/hello_world/main.stdout (this path is printed as part of the test failure mesage), so you can run diff and so forth.

Editing and updating the reference files

If you have changed the compiler's output intentionally, or you are making a new test, you can use the script update-references.sh to update the references. When you run the test framework, it will report various errors: in those errors is a command you can use to run the update-references.sh script, which will then copy over the files from the build directory and use them as the new reference. You can also just run update-all-references.sh. In both cases, you can run the script with --help to get a help message.

Normalization

The normalization applied is aimed at filenames:

  • the test directory is replaced with $DIR
  • all backslashes () are converted to forward slashes (/) (for windows)