From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William Clodius Subject: Re: Ariane-5: can you clarify? (Re: Please do not start a language war) Date: 1997/03/24 Message-ID: <3336AC20.794B@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 228006237 References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Garlington wrote: > > I don't understand this argument at all. I can see only three ways in > which > assertions provide benefit: > > 1. Documentation for the human reader. However, if "free formatted > in-code > comments are too unreliable for this purpose", then this cannot be the > primary benefit? The benefits can certainly be enhanced if the programming environment provides means to automatically extract the information and provide it in a clearly summarized form. This is the main benefit of Eiffel style assertions. -- William B. Clodius Phone: (505)-665-9370 Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NIS-2 FAX: (505)-667-3815 PO Box 1663, MS-C323 Group office: (505)-667-5776 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Email: wclodius@lanl.gov