bob: Update to clarify ambiguity regarding shouted questions

[kytrinyx]

TL;DR: the problem specification for the Bob exercise has been updated. Consider updating the test suite for Bob to match. If you decide not to update the exercise, consider overriding description.md.

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Details

The problem description for the Bob exercise lists four conditions:

• asking a question
• shouting
• remaining silent
• anything else

There's an ambiguity, however, for shouted questions: should they receive the "asking" response or the "shouting" response?

In exercism/problem-specifications#1025 this ambiguity was resolved by adding an additional rule for shouted questions.

If this track uses exercise generators to update test suites based on the canonical-data.json file from problem-specifications, then now would be a good time to regenerate 'bob'. If not, then it will require a manual update to the test case with input "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?".

See the most recent canonical-data.json file for the exact changes.

Remember to regenerate the exercise README after updating the test suite:

configlet generate . --only=bob --spec-path=<path to your local copy of the problem-specifications repository>

You can download the most recent configlet at https://github.com/exercism/configlet/releases/latest if you don't have it.

If, as track maintainers, you decide that you don't want to change the exercise, then please consider copying problem-specifications/exercises/bob/description.md into this track, putting it in exercises/bob/.meta/description.md and updating the description to match the current implementation. This will let us run the configlet README generation without having to worry about the bob README drifting from the implementation.

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[mawis]

Note in case someone wonders in the future: I checked our Bob exercise, and we do have the updated test for a forceful question in it.

Therefore I also removed the wontfix label as this has been fixed.

[chuckwondo]

@mawis I just started the PureScript track, and I don't see the updated test. If I'm understanding things correctly, the test is still incorrect:

test "forceful questions" do
  Assert.equal "Whoa, chill out!" $
    Bob.hey "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?"

I believe the expected value is "Calm down, I know what I'm doing!", right?

If so, can we reopen this issue?

[emiel]

Thanks for pointing this out @chuckwondo and I believe you are correct. The current exercise instructions include the rule:

He answers 'Calm down, I know what I'm doing!' if you yell a question at him.

...and is an exact copy of the problem specification description. In the related canonical data file the expected response is indeed: "Calm down, I know what I'm doing!"

This issue should be reopened.