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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,587e0e0a16d65b10 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nx02.iad.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:19:08 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia! References: <1tw8gryqdolal$.1osqedj9x821c.dlg@40tude.net> <5c44eaae-631d-46d2-8384-86af79d5e048@n20g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <944a1924-0fa7-487f-a94d-084a2be1b231@v31g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9f2553d3-66f5-4708-a237-bfef1d8404f4@v42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <4013d6a4-f4f4-4d6e-92bd-161687608db9@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <49a58a60$0$30235$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <49a599ac$0$30225$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Feb 2009 20:19:08 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 47d0cd54.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=0A_m3BHinQ:]E=H1Q9`787ic==]BZ:af>4Fo<]lROoR1^YC2XCjHcb9T@UTC2<>ER5;9OJDO8_SK6NSZ1n^B98i:5VWWhTdKT== X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3798 Date: 2009-02-25T20:19:08+01:00 List-Id: (see below) schrieb: >> All the more we could profit from pre/post assertions >> and invariant type constraints specified by the programmer. >> Perfectly clear, checkable, and international. >> >> Doesn't someone have the ressouces to help Randy Brukardt >> continue his work on these? Please! :-) :-) :-) > > Could I encourage Randy to say something about this? > I had not heard of this work before, and it sounds very valuable. > There is a longer thread entitled "contracts in Ada" on the Ada Comments mailing list, started by Robert Duff discussing "AI95-00288 (and perhaps AI95-00375)" on Jan 10th 2009. This is archived, there is a description of a procedure for searching the archives in http://www.adaic.org/standards/articles/comment.html Haven't tried this myself, though.