[WalterBright]

> Did the proposal authors contact you

No

> or refer to your work (or any other previous work)?

No

I presume they simply didn't know about it. I emailed the authors.

> Do people use it?

Yes

[AlotOfReading]

I'd assume the authors were aware of it, given that the original set of proposals from 2004-2006 directly compares facilities in D and Eiffel. Plus, you know, andrei.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n19...

[WalterBright]

I had missed this, the paper does mention D:

"Programming languages such as Eiffel and D have a Contracts facility; this paper proposes a Contracts facility for C++."

[JimBright]

Maybe you should execute their trainer!

[zerr]

> Yes

The tiny subset of D userbase, which is tiny in its own.