On 01/07/2015 06:50 PM, Alex Charlton wrote: > Bahman Movaqar writes: > >> I have a record type, SOME-RT, and am implementing operations for it. As >> a habit, I keep putting an 'assert' expression at the beginning of each >> procedure. >> >> (define (some-rt-some-op param1) >> (assert (some-rt? param1) ...) >> >> However, I doubt if I'm doing things the idiomatic way. Is this the >> approach you seasoned CHICKEN'ers would take as well? TIA, > While I wouldn’t say assert is in any way a bad thing to use, Eiffel-style > contracts can be a nice solution to this type of problem. While I’ve never > used the dbc egg before, it seems to be the way to go for contracts in > CHICKEN: > > http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/dbc
Thanks Richard and Alex for your replies and hints. For now as a beginner, to keep the complexity at a minimum, I'd go with the traditional "assert". -- Bahman Movaqar http://BahmanM.com - https://twitter.com/bahman__m https://github.com/bahmanm - https://gist.github.com/bahmanm PGP Key ID: 0x6AB5BD68 (keyserver2.pgp.com)
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