Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:22827 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2395 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Apr 2006 10:27:35 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2380 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2006 10:27:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2006 10:27:34 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.182.191 nproxy.gmail.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([64.233.182.191:37679] helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id BA/F6-19715-61FB4444 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:27:34 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n15so582280nfc for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:27:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=JtYk7cSCsXGASGWIFXONuAfjW80yK5i0OLC4lpL6Q+wo0eQACSFdDmKuloZMcSCQn0rSCk/MMOl6DeQfoik68v8/gxSFStLk/3DaLPTT5hHf7HyQ5WTj84C5VrW/3DZbDcfVj/LVZYwvQTkodjen17i7eEgsGr5vatGD5MrbWlM= Received: by 10.48.222.17 with SMTP id u17mr909739nfg; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.61.9 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a8d4a710604180327k443160d2lc4c3fc47b6dfd9f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:27:32 -0400 To: "php internals" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Design By Contract From: chiology@gmail.com ("James Crane") 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. (A longshot, I know, but it's worth a shot.) M.T.