JsContract: Design by Contract library
Ajaxian Feb 04 10Fan of Eiffel or the design by contract pattern that it espouses? Øyvind Kinsey is, and he just created jsContract an alpha library to give you some pre and post condition abilities. Here is an example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function _internalMethod(a, b){ Contract.expectNumber(a); Contract.expectNumber(b); Contract.expectWhen(config.mode === "divide", b> 0, "Divisor cannot be 0"); Contract.expectWhen(config.mode === "multiply", [...] Full story...
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