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!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!reality.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2012 Constraints (WRT an Ada IR) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:53:11 -0600 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <1af458a8-cf5b-4dd7-824d-eed1ed5ffb21@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rrsoftware.com X-Trace: franka.jacob-sparre.dk 1481755991 22113 24.196.82.226 (14 Dec 2016 22:53:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:53:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32836 Date: 2016-12-14T16:53:11-06:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:o2r1ca$184u$1@gioia.aioe.org... ... > Others tried to argue that such bodies are not bodies but magically > "preconditions". No, they are still bodies, just misplaced ones. Body /= implementation!! (Using "implementation" here in your sense as the entire execution of a subprogram.) A body is just the hidden part of the implementation; the part that is exposed to callers includes constraint, null exclusion, and predicate checks, and the precondition. The caller has a need to know about part of the implementation, and hopefully not about the rest. Exactly where the split between the specification and the body goes clearly depends on a need to know basis, and it has nothing to do with whether it is static or dynamic or provable. Randy.