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Subject: Re: Silly and stupid post-condition or not ?
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:31:16 +0100
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Le Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:18:44 +0100, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com=
>  =

a =C3=A9crit:
> Finally, it's perfectly reasonable to prove useful things about  =

> exceptions.
> I've heard people say that's impossible because you get a combinationa=
l
> explosion.

While analysis is running, some known properties can be used to exclude =
 =

some states. I mean as analysis goes, the set of possible states can go =
 =

smaller, thus potentially avoiding any explosion.

This may not go this way, but at least this can go this way.

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=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 Univers=
ity