Hello Sebastian, interfaces are contracts as well as any signature is a contract.
marcus Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 5:26:44 PM, you wrote: > James Crane schrieb: >> I've been reading and I discovered a concept called Design By >> Contract. I've not seen any particular libraries to aid in this >> particular development design process, but I was wondering if you >> folks had, or if there were plans to consider providing for this >> functionality within PHP. > The only language that I know of that supports Design-by-Contract > through language features is, of course, Eiffel. > PHPUnit [1] supports [2] the same approach to Design-by-Contract that > other Unit Test frameworks provide, too. But that would be a topic for > another mailinglist. > -- > [1] http://www.phpunit.de/ > [2] http://www.phpunit.de/pocket_guide/2.3/en/test-first-programming.html > -- > Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69 Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
