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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.

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Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
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