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In article <6606.2b41845f@hayes.com>, bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
wrote:
> Sounds like you are suggesting people build frameworks in Eiffel, which
> has formal mechanisms for defining pre and post conditions for all routines.
 
> Too bad there isn't such an Eiffel implementation for the Mac.

It's not that hard to add pre- and post-conditions with methods using 
assertions. I have my own ASSERT macro package that is conditionally
compiled in during debug mode, and it certainly catches a lot of errors
I would not be aware of otherwise. It's a matter of strict programming
to add in an additional line after each error producing statement. And 
yes indeed a language such as Eiffel helps, but it does not imply that
you can't do the same thing using for instance macros in C/C++.

Cheers,
Kent
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