From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: preconditions rock
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 10:24:21 +0200
Date: 2020-05-25T10:24:21+02:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <975a04e0-497c-4335-ab66-d7493f9ae119@googlegroups.com>
On 5/25/20 2:00 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> I just have to say that I'm really appreciating how much preconditions help during development; I'm get way better error messages when tests fail, so it is very easy to fix the problems.
Certainly, but preconditions are a way of thinking during design to create
correct software. It's nice to have them directly supported in a language, but
they're nothing new. I used preconditions in Ada 83 over 30 years ago.
--
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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2020-05-25 0:00 preconditions rock Stephen Leake
2020-05-25 2:48 ` Anh Vo
2020-05-25 8:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2020-05-25 17:14 ` Anh Vo
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