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| Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:33:14 -0800 |
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On 02/14/2013 10:05 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> wrote: >> So any implementation has to choose one of the following: >> >> 1. Ignore invariants and postconditions of inherited classes - defeats >> the purpose. >> 2. Only respect definitions in classes and methods in the original >> definition, which would be unpythonic >> 3. Only respect the "original" definitions, for some value of original. >> Simarily, this would break monkey patching. >> 4. Update all subclasses whenever something changes. >> 5. Traverse the entire class hierarchy for every method call. >> >> Which option should be picked? > > #5, with the expectation that like assertions the entire machinery > would be turned off when the -O flag is passed, or perhaps even > requiring a special flag to enable in the first place. Contracts and > invariants would only be used in development work, not in production > code. I was under the impression that the real power of contracts was when they are /not/ turned off -- the errors we don't catch in development are the serious ones. ;) -- ~Ethan~
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any chance for contracts and invariants in Python? mrkafk@gmail.com - 2013-02-14 03:42 -0800 Re: any chance for contracts and invariants in Python? Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2013-02-14 18:03 +0100 Re: any chance for contracts and invariants in Python? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 11:05 -0700 Re: any chance for contracts and invariants in Python? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-14 18:18 +0000 Re: any chance for contracts and invariants in Python? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-02-14 10:33 -0800 Re: any chance for contracts and invariants in Python? Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 18:33 -0800
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