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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2012 Constraints (WRT an Ada IR) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:46:13 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <47366b42-c0a3-41bf-a44a-5241c109d60f@googlegroups.com> <4c9c0d51-13f0-422f-9e72-5c2f9d9ccce4@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s3c6wwRqkurrfTZpuYYZ+w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32765 Date: 2016-12-12T21:46:13+01:00 List-Id: On 2016-12-12 20:48, Shark8 wrote: > On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 10:39:28 AM UTC-7, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 2016-12-12 16:31, G.B. wrote: >>> On 12/12/2016 09:27, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >>> >>>>> I.e., the programmer writing Y (X (A, B)) has ensured that >>>>> the assumption expressed as X'Pre is actually true before >>>>> calling X. >>>> >>>> So what? Programmers program programs, and how is that related to >>>> contracts etc? >>> >>> Informing is contracts' primary purpose, >> >> Nope. The contract's purpose is to constrain contracted parties. >> Informing is the purpose of E-mail, newspaper etc... > > They aren't exactly mutually exclusive -- consider electronic > components, they have a data-sheet that both informs you of their > limitations and operate within prescribed bounds when those conditions > are met. (Absent manufacturing defects and wear-out, obviously.) Add data-sheets to the list... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de