[Python-ideas] Why is design-by-contracts not widely

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Fri Sep 28 13:18:54 EDT 2018


On 9/28/18 12:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:59:53PM +1000, Hugh Fisher wrote:
>
>> C and Python (currently) are known as simple languages.
>
> o_O
>
> That's a usage of "simple" I haven't come across before. Especially in
> the case of C, which is a minefield of *intentionally* underspecified
> behaviour which makes it near to impossible for the developer to tell
> what a piece of syntactically legal C code will actually do in practice.

s/C/Python/

s/underspecified/dynamic/

;-)




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