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Subject: Re: Ada 2012 talk at DANSAS'13
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> writes:
>    Our experience so far is that GNAT-GPL-2013... only implements
>    static (compile-time) checking of contracts and aspects where it is
>    required by the language standard.

Does SPARK-2014 help?  I'm not sure if it exists yet, but I gather
GNATProve (which is out there) is some kind of precursor to it.

Disclaimer: I'm interested in trying this stuff out, but I don't really
know anything about it yet, beyond having looked at a few web pages.