"Hoare triple" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Hoare triples [plural]
Etymology: Part of the Hoare logic proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare. Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: Tony Hoare Categories (topical): Theory of computing Hyponyms: description, triple

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