Re: type-checking [Was: What is Perl?]

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:18:07PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>    > Though a good post condition would benefit from some sort of
>    > unconditional catch of return, I suppose. Perhaps allowing
>    > continue on the outer sub block...
> 
> Argh, no! A good postcondition is either invisible to the client code, or
> makes its presence felt only through the effect of turning a bad final
> state (or return value) into an exception. It does *not* offer a last
> chance to monkey with the return value!

http://bumppo.net/lists/fun-with-perl/2000/08/msg00000.html

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