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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea5071f634c2ea8b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.28.135 with SMTP id b7mr6967505pbh.8.1322114840779; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:07:20 -0800 (PST) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 78.192.181.72 Path: lh20ni11701pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!78.192.181.72.MISMATCH!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generic-Package Elaboration Question / Possible GNAT Bug. Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:07:19 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <7bf9bc32-850a-40c6-9ae2-5254fe220533@f29g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <4295dc09-43de-4557-a095-fc108359f27f@y42g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <3snehoqgs8ia$.1nobjem6g6hx6$.dlg@40tude.net> <128rdz2581345$.c4td19l7qp9z$.dlg@40tude.net> <16ipwvpdavifr$.17bxf7if7f6kh$.dlg@40tude.net> <4ecb78b1$0$6643$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <1iofgbqznsviu$.phvidtvxlyj4$.dlg@40tude.net> <4ecbb96e$0$6581$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <743e83a1-c442-444b-a25a-da706e9cd0f9@g7g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jRzCvV7tVUJlI5UqUmPxug.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.60 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19102 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2011-11-24T07:07:19+01:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:07:55 +0100, Shark8 a = = =C3=A9crit: > What it's saying is: "Design By Contract can aid in debugging and in > formally proving components for which it is possible to formally > prove." Or alternatively, far too much long/difficult to prove. This may be = compared to =E2=80=9Cthis procedure must terminate in a reasonable amoun= t of = time=E2=80=9D. That's indeed the difference between hard pure formalism = and = concrete things, and sooner or later, we need things to become concrete = :) -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: [Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univer= sity]