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Subject: Re: {Pre,Post}conditions and side effects
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> For example, in this "Is_Sorted" example, if you are assuming that some 
> object is sorted, then it should have a predicate to that effect. 

Randy, is that a real possibility with SPARK--to have a predicate that
says that an array is sorted and have it verified at compile time by the
compiler?  I thought SPARK mostly was for proving rather simpler
conditions.