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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!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: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 11:32:13 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1bfhq7jo34xpi.p8n2vq6yjsea.dlg@40tude.net> <12gn9wvv1gwfk.10ikfju4rzmnj.dlg@40tude.net> <1oy5rmprgawqs.1jz36okze0xju$.dlg@40tude.net> <1q2ql1e4rcgko.diszzq1mhaq8$.dlg@40tude.net> <1msoad3apbkf.1optea1ujjydv.dlg@40tude.net> <18iybsmtjt4ay.efhc3ordxiua$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2WDySVo3ljzMoJ+IkbOqwg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 2447 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:181603 Date: 2013-05-12T11:32:13+02:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 12 May 2013 11:25:51 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: >> Seems the invariably `True` >> precondition wants to give the illusion of universal reuse without >> conditions. > > No, "true" means what that the contract was not a lie. If you say that= = > the > argument of sqrt is Float and another person say that it is not negati= ve, > then somebody is lying here. This is the same person who says both as this is the one who wrote the = signature and the precondition. And this is not a contradiction to have = = conjunction of conditions, that's common. -- = =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