From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T19:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Design By Contract.


"Ken Hilton" <kenosis@attbi.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:xbUpa.606467$L1.172152@sccrnsc02...
> Several months ago, I made a posting regarding a possible enhancement to
> Ruby to facilitate Design by Contract (DbC).  Matz and Justin were kind
> enough to reply w/their thoughts and I was curious to know whether there
is
> any hope for such functionality in any near future release of Ruby.

Since ruby is dynamically typed currently I don't see much chance to have
DBC in ruby.  You can't even fix argument types of methods in the
interface.  You can of course do argument (type) checking at runtime, but
there's not static type information about arguments.

see here as well: http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?DesignByContract

    robert