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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Date: 1997/08/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268965806 Distribution: world References: <01bcb389$24f579d0$1c10d30a@ntwneil> <5u62es$e23$7@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5u62es$e23$7@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> paul.johnson@gecm.com (Paul Johnson) writes: > In article , stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com > says... > > >The hand-written Ada package spec (or even C header) remains a far > >superior interface document for a given abstraction than is anything > >I have seen extracted by a tool. > > Then I very strongly recommend that you take a look at the > short-flat form of Eiffel. Been there, done that. And I'm with Tucker on this one. /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari