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Quantified Assertions in Eiffel

S. Kent and I. Maung

In Proceedings of TOOLS PACIFIC 95 (TOOLS 18), pages 182-196. Prentice Hall, November 1995.

Abstract

This paper discusses extensions to the language Eiffel, required to write more comprehensive software specifications, where a specification in Eiffel is a collection of class interfaces with features specified using an assertion language (i.e. a BON static model). The focus of the paper is the extension of the assertion language with quantification. Two forms of quantification are identified, which are distinguished according to whether the quantified variable is of reference or expanded type. A semantics for each of the two forms is described, and the consequences for assertion checking at run-time considered.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{802,
author = {S. Kent and I. Maung},
title = {{Quantified Assertions in Eiffel}},
month = {November},
year = {1995},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1995/802},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of TOOLS PACIFIC 95 (TOOLS 18)},
    publisher = {Prentice Hall},
}

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