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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ad06d2d7cb045687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.222.71 with SMTP id qk7mr9467597pbc.1.1328035702420; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:48:22 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni245732pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Silly and stupid =?UTF-8?B?cG9zdOKAkWNvbmRpdGlvbiBvciBub3TCoA==?= =?UTF-8?B?Pw==?= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:48:19 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.219.168.165 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1328035701 44824 70.219.168.165 (31 Jan 2012 18:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:48:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-01-31T11:48:19-07:00 List-Id: On 01/30/2012 11:47 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote: > > Is this particular one useful? If you think that it is a property of > your subprogram that should be made explicit to the user, yes. If you > think it is just a redundant property that only repeats the properties > of the specification, no. Really a matter of appreciation. The condition in question looks more like a precondition than a postcondition to me: with Pre => S'Length in Image_Length_Type -- Jeff Carter "Brave Sir Robin ran away." Monty Python and the Holy Grail 59 --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---