Hoare triple

English

Etymology

Part of the Hoare logic proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare.

Noun

Hoare triple (plural Hoare triples)

  1. (computing theory) A formal description of how the execution of a piece of code changes the state of the computation in Hoare logic, consisting of a command to be run, a precondition that holds true beforehand, and a postcondition that holds true afterwards.

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