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Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb:

> This is what I call abstract record interface. For each component it will
> have two operations:
> 
>    function ".<component>" (R : Abstract_Record_Type)
>       return Component_Type is abstract;
>    procedure ".<component>"
>       (R : in out Abstract_Record_Type; C : Component_Type) is abstract;
> 
> The compiler uses the second (setter) for all LHS X.Component.

That with pre/post/invariant constraints, in case the
component setting procedure has access to the object
containing the component.
Could pre/post/invariant also help when checking order of
component assignments?

(These are called "assigner commands" in Eiffel.)