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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII 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: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Date: 1997/09/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 270366085 References: <340C85CE.6F42@link.com> Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) wrote: >>With the exit approach, comprehension only depends on what has come before. > >Yes, there seems to be an analogy here, but I think it's superficial. >Certainly the statement "comprehension dependy only on what has come >before" applies in both cases, but let's consider whether this is >really important. I'm merely stating what was told to me privately by Ada's original designer (Jean Ichbiah) and what is documented publicly in the Ada 83 Rationale. There definately _is_ an analogy, because the designer decided intentionally that there would be. This analogy isn't superficial at all - it pervades the whole of the design of the language. To get random signatures put text files into a folder called �Random Signatures� into your Preferences folder.