On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 5:30:03 AM UTC-7, Rich Hickey wrote:
>
> The philosophy is - generative testing has made sure your function 
> complies with the specs. So, testing the :ret and :fn properties over and 
> over is redundant and serves no point. 
>
> OTOH, you may encounter user- or externally-supplied data at runtime and 
> want to use the facilities of spec to validate/process it. Then you can use 
> valid? or conform *explicitly* to do so. 
>

Ah, that totally makes sense -- only the :arg validation and not the 
:ret/:fn properties are relevant to check on every invocation at runtime 
(rather than test time).  Thank you!

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