Currently the description says:
There are 12 children in the class:
Alice, Bob, Charlie, David, Eve, Fred, Ginny, Harriet, Ileana, Joseph, Kincaid, and Larry.
And only by trying and failing and/or looking into the tests code you learn this is not a fixed list and the children list can be changed. Would be nice to add something like “For example, there are 12 children…”
Exercism tends to rely heavily on tests to convey the actual requirements. I agree this description is a bit misleading and there’s potential for improvement. The instructions have a lot of details going on, though, and I’m worried that inserting “for example” there would either make the instructions somewhat confusing or people won’t pick up on what you’re trying to convey.
Exercism has a general idea that test driven development is important, so reading the tests is expected, part of the process, and the process (except for the writing of the tests, which has been done for you) shows in your description of trying and failing and further discovery of the specification.
@IsaacG I do not think that your “people won’t people up” means what you are trying to say.
Hah. Thanks. Corrected. People won’t pick up.