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) (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. ==== Hyponyms ==== description triple === References === Hoare triple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia