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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract)
Date: 1997/09/17
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Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Don said

<<:This is not a work around, it is standard Ada style. To say it is a workaround
:is like saying that in C it is a work around to have to declare int and
:float separately because in mathematics they are both numbers (or choose all
:sorts of other silly analogies :-)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm glad *you* said it!  :)>>


Um Don, I think you misparsed what I said here. My silly analogy, I meant
analogies that are accurate and equally as silly as the original! So if
you are glad I said it fine, but I hope you understand the sense, and
agree that the original was silly!