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From: Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: Assertions in the Next Ada Standard
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:23:02 GMT
Date: 2002-01-11T09:23:02+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dstanbro-07F79B.20222311012002@mec2.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C3E8438.E780D942@adaworks.com

Richard Riehle wrote:

> I am hoping to see something like pre-conditions, post-conditions,
> and invariants in the next revision of Ada.  I would be pleased if
> we simply adopted the wording already used in Eiffel:  require,
> ensure, and invariant, but I am not intractable about the terminology.
> 
> So, who is working on the proposal for this?
> 
> Richard Riehle

I think another valuable one would be "assume" which is an 
assertion that allows the compiler to invoke any code
optimisation it can.

Dale



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-11  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-11  6:20 Assertions in the Next Ada Standard Richard Riehle
2002-01-11  9:23 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2002-01-11 13:47   ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 23:28   ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-12  1:30     ` Darren New
2002-01-11 20:07 ` FGD
2002-01-11 20:39   ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-12  4:56     ` Robert Dewar
2002-01-12  7:30   ` Richard Riehle
2002-01-12 19:58     ` FGD
2002-01-12 21:27       ` Ed Falis
2002-01-12 22:45     ` Darren New
2002-01-14 17:20       ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-14 17:42         ` Darren New
2002-01-14 23:16     ` Mark Lundquist
2002-01-17  6:23     ` Richard Riehle
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