• From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:37:55 +0000

Dan Connolly once put it very succinctly: "It makes sense to validate
at trust boundaries."

That's one of the main things contracts are for -- to establish
mutually agreed interfaces:  "I promise to deliver to these specs/I
promise to process anything which matches those specs".

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• References:
  • Benefits of validation
    • From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>