CHAPTER 17 Ensuring Correct Argument Types
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Augmenting Chapter 16’s ContractRegistry to handle argument validation
- Packaging the new facility in an aspect
- Creating libraries of contracts, importing them into your application, and attaching them to your functions in aspects
- Comparing the ContractRegistry with TypeScript, a popular compile-time type-checker
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