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Contracts are partial specifications that can be added to program code. They are checked by compilers or other tools, or, more commonly, by runtime checks. Languages such as Eiffel[8], JML[7], or Spec#[1] support contracts natively. Scala [11] does not. Instead, Scala provides flexible syntax that helps in writing highlevel libraries which can often mimic true language extensions. An interesting question is to what degree this syntactic flexibility supports the embedding of contracts.
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Odersky, M. (2010). Contracts for Scala. In: Barringer, H., et al. Runtime Verification. RV 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6418. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16612-9_5
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