Eiffel-Like Assertions

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Hi;

I would love to see Eiffel-like assertions incorporated into Kotlin.

Is there any chance of that happening?

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Mark Mueller
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Hi Mark,

fyi there was a similar discussion in the Kontributors forum: http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5465970

– Oliver

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In short: this is unlikely to happen in the compiler itself, but may happen as an optional plugin

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Thanks for responding to my question so quickly.

In Eiffel, the preconditions and postconditons are part of the methods signature, so, if I write an abstract method, someone who adds code to it in a child class will need to live by the same assertions, or make them more rigid.  This is a great benefit in large projects where you have mulitple programmers involved.  

Do you know of anyone that is working on a plugin?

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Mark Mueller
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