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From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Meaning of “contractual” according to Ada
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:22:36 +0100
Date: 2013-03-06T19:22:36+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wtjenykuule2fv@cardamome> (raw)

Because naming and wording matters, especially with Ada :-P , I have this  
question.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rat/html/Rat12-2-5.html
Says:
> These are not really contractual in the sense thatpreconditions,  
> postconditions and invariants arecontractual but are more akin to  
> constraints.

What's not contractual with subtype predicates? And so what does  
“contractual” means exactly for Ada's definition authors?


-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University



             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-06 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-06 18:22 Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2013-03-06 22:35 ` Meaning of “contractual” according to Ada Robert A Duff
2013-03-07  1:20   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-03-07  2:57     ` Meaning of "contractual" " Randy Brukardt
2013-03-07  9:27     ` Meaning of “contractual” " Dmitry A. Kazakov
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