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Re^5: A proper name for is_sorted function that can check more than just sorting order?

by Dallaylaen (Chaplain)
on Dec 28, 2017 at 10:32 UTC ( [id://1206315]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: A proper name for is_sorted function that can check more than just sorting order?
in thread A proper name for is_sorted function that can check more than just sorting order?

Object-orientation and type checking protect from certain type of errors, but they don't impose specific behavior on class methods.

Runtime assertions and to a lesser extent unit-tests guard invariants.

Unit-tests ensure (or, rather, try hard to disprove) the fact that in certain predictable cases the software behaves exactly as predicted.

There are also design-by-contract frameworks (like Class::Contract) that do all of the above, however at a performance cost, plus it's a bit of take it or leave it. One cannot say "ok, we had a bug yesterday, so I'm adding a contract wrapper to this sub so we can avoid it in the future".

All different, each serves its own purpose...

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