strange behavior of by-value function arguments in postcondition
bauss
jj_1337 at live.dk
Tue Aug 31 12:39:59 UTC 2021
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 12:35:54 UTC, Andrzej K. wrote:
>
> I guess, the question here is, who are the postconditions for?
> Are they for the caller (to guarantee something that the caller
> understands)? Or are they for the callee (in order to
> automatically inject assertions into function body)? If it is
> the latter, then the current semantics are fine.
The postconditions are for the maintainer to ensure the function
actually works as expected.
If the asserts don't pass then the function has a bug.
Assert statements are never for the user and always for the
maintainer.
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