On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 9:25 PM Marko Ristin-Kaufmann <marko.ris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try to question whether the contracts I wrote are so obvious to everybody > even if they are obvious to you and keep in mind that the user does not > look into the implementation. > I had missed this comment, but this seems to be the biggest disconnect, or talking past each other. I'm a user of many libraries. I USUALLY look at the implementation when in doubt about a function. If contracts are meant only for users who don't look at code, the detrimental effect on code readability is mitigated. The other place I look, if not the actual implementation, is at the docstring. I don't remember if icontracts patches the docstring when it decorates a function. If not, that would be very helpful. I agree that all the Sphinx documentation examples shown are very nice. Prose descriptions would often be nicer still, but the Boolean expressions are helpful for those unusual cases where I don't want to look at the code.
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