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From: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim dot durchholz@halstenbach.com>
Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel
Date: 2000/07/19
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Reply-To: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim.durchholz@halstenbach.com>
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Date: 2000-07-19T00:00:00+00:00
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Veli-Pekka Nousiainen <vp.nousiainen@lapinlahden-teknologiakeskus.fi>
wrote:
> exeption?
> retry
>
> VPN
>
> "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim dot durchholz@halstenbach.com> wrote:
> > Software contracts are nonnegotiable; if the existing contracts
> > don't  satisfy you, write a new routine with a satisfactory
contract.

Assertions are applicable independently of whether there are any
exception handling facilities. The point is that a broken contract is
somehow relayed - whether that's debug output on a serial port, an
exception that can be caught, an exception that cannot be caught, or
whatever is relatively irrelevant - assertions can be combined with all
these techniques.
(This thread is on assertions in general, not on assertions in Eiffel.)

Regards,
Joachim
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