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From: cropt <jonh@polter.net>
Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel
Date: 2000/07/11
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> If I make an assumption and don't explictly write it down or
> tell someone and conditions which I was not aware of at the
> time occurr that violate my assumption then we have a problem
> which would most likely take a while to track down.

I think the question was about what happens when you make an assumption
and write down something thats not exactly the same as your assumption

Like writing a log function and only writing the contract to prevent
negative numbers {forgetting what happens at 0}