A question about DbC

Denis Koroskin 2korden at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 04:23:25 PDT 2010


On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:06:40 +0400, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Saturday 09 October 2010 03:47:52 Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> Why not just throw an exception and get a nice stack trace?
>
> You get a stack trace anyway with an assertion failure. And sure, they  
> _could_
> make it so that the only way to output anything from a contract is to  
> use an
> exception, but not only would that be more of a pain than using  
> writeln(), but
> it would mean that the only time you could output anything would be on  
> failure.
> As it is, you can print something every time that a contract is run. You
> couldn't do that with an exception.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I could do the same within a function body.

Anyway, I don't see the discussion going anywhere, it's just a matter of  
preference and I don't really mind yours.


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