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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: kennel@nospam.lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)) Subject: Re: Design by Contract Date: 1997/08/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 269131992 References: <33E9ADE9.4709@flash.net> <34023BC4.2781E494@eiffel.com> <3402d123.0@news.uni-ulm.de> <3402DA6A.C4444E46@calfp.co.uk> <3402e51d.0@news.uni-ulm.de> <3402E8C9.3384D976@calfp.co.uk> <34050F3C.5A3A@invest.amp.com.au> <5u61qa$e23$6@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Reply-To: kennel@NOSPAMlyapunov.ucsd.edu Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 29 Aug 1997 08:38:34 GMT, Paul Johnson wrote: :In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu says... : :>I don't know Eiffel well enough to know how easy it would be to make the :>CM system aware of *what kind* of change you were making, from what I know :>of Eiffel, it sounds difficult. : :No, its easy. Eiffel systems come with tools to extract class interfaces. :You just put those interfaces under change control and then compare the :stored versions with the newly generated versions. In truth, isn't the right management procedure for this situation to control abstract classes, and have programmers write concrete ones to that spec? :Paul Johnson | GEC-Marconi Ltd is not responsible for my opinions. | * Matthew B. Kennel/Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD - * "People who send spam to Emperor Cartagia... vanish! _They say_ that * there's a room where he has their heads, lined up in a row on a desk... * _They say_ that late at night, he goes there, and talks to them... _they *- say_ he asks them, 'Now tell me again, how _do_ you make money fast?'"