Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:22829 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23710 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Apr 2006 11:10:04 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23695 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2006 11:10:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2006 11:10:04 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.123.98.46 unknown Received: from ([80.123.98.46:25379] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 49/A9-19715-809C4444 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: <49.A9.19715.809C4444@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:10:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2a8d4a710604180327k443160d2lc4c3fc47b6dfd9f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a8d4a710604180327k443160d2lc4c3fc47b6dfd9f0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 80.123.98.46 Subject: Re: Design By Contract From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner) James Crane wrote: > 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.) Please refer to http://php.net/interfaces, http://php.net/spl and php-general@lists.php.net Regards, -- Michael - http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz