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		cpdean on Jan 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral v... How are the `implore` and `swear` keywords different from python's `assert`? Even the implementation looks like it's just custom error text for `assert`.

cpdean on Jan 3, 2013 [–]

Oh.

"If an oath is broken, the offending function (the caller in the case of implore and the callee in the case of swear) will be duly punished. ... it will be deleted from your source code"

Hahah, awesome.

Outsource-proof.

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