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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: system-level validity
- Message-ID: <1bmn50.nagle@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 07:02:21 GMT
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- References: <mod.714411318@cs.man.ac.uk> <714585601snx@holon.demon.co.uk> <mod.714907485@cs.man.ac.uk> <83@feiffel.UUCP>
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- bertrand@feiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) writes:
- The first release of ISE Eiffel 3 does not support system-level
- >validity checking. We felt that adding system-level checking,
- >which addresses a real problem but one that does not arise often
- >in practice, was not worth delaying the release by two months
- >(the current estimate of the time needed to implement system-level
- >validity).
- I thought the whole point of Eiffel was the emphasis on validity
- checking. But at least it is scheduled for Real Soon Now.
- Given system-level validity checking, what strong statements can
- one make about a program that passes it?
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- John Nagle
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