Thank you both for the responses and links, they've been helpful.

On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 1:02:16 PM UTC-4, Tom Connors wrote:
>
> spec.test/instrument doesn't check the return value of spec'd functions 
> and according to the spec guide this is because we should be checking 
> function implementations at testing time, not development time. It seems to 
> me that adding :ret and :fn checks to instrumented functions would be 
> worthwhile even though tests are a better place to do those checks - since 
> instrumentation is meant to be turned off in production the performance hit 
> doesn't matter, and since we're already verifying that the arguments 
> conform to spec, why not check the return value as well? A benefit would be 
> that if we haven't yet written (or won't write) generators and tests, we 
> still get a confidence increase about our instrumented functions' return 
> values. 
> I'm sure this was considered, so I'm just wondering if "do that in your 
> tests" is the entire reason for this design choice.
>

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