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by loeg 1265 days ago
You add something like:

  DCHECK(myInvariants());
to your method bodies. Sure, it makes it possible to forget, but it's not that hard to use.
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A big part of DbC is that contracts are part of the public interface, not the implementation. This becomes especially important once you mesh them with Simula-style OOP, as derived classes need a way for overridden methods to widen or narrow the inherited contract.