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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2012 Constraints (WRT an Ada IR) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:44:04 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <999c67b0-4478-4d2b-8108-32ac48fe6316@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nonlegitur@notmyhomepage.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:42:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d7777aaea4e05f5460ede15b9236d665"; logging-data="31249"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+K5PRkBKoomBRRgNlAo3L4fYeaqfetxBU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Th1voPsY69C+YMiBkj/K+zFN1w= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32815 Date: 2016-12-14T13:44:04+01:00 List-Id: On 14/12/2016 12:25, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > That is the problem with implied contracts. Is this legal: > > begin > loop > X (Read (Stream)); > end loop; > exception > when Constraint_Error => > null; > end; "Assertions are not an input checking mechanism" "To avoid a common misunderstanding, make sure to note that each of the contracts discussed holds between a routine (the supplier) and another routine (its caller): we are concerned about software-to-software communication, not software-to-human or software-to-outside-world. (...) Here there is no substitute for the usual condition-checking constructs, include the venerable IF ... THEN ...; the exception handling mechanism ... may also be helpful ". [1] [1] Meyer, Bertrand: OOSC2, 2nd ed, ยง11.6