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===exceptional cases===
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Subclasses of NUMERIC can have problems with contracts of features and invariants in special cases. Therefore a query like 'is_exceptional' could be introduced to make contracts conditional in respect to these special cases.
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Special cases include:
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* REAL.NaN (all operations)
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* REAL.INF (all operations)
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* INTEGER.min_value (when computing the absolute value an overflow occurs and the result is min_value again)

Revision as of 16:54, 17 November 2006


exceptional cases

Subclasses of NUMERIC can have problems with contracts of features and invariants in special cases. Therefore a query like 'is_exceptional' could be introduced to make contracts conditional in respect to these special cases.

Special cases include:

  • REAL.NaN (all operations)
  • REAL.INF (all operations)
  • INTEGER.min_value (when computing the absolute value an overflow occurs and the result is min_value again)