Oh thank God somebody in authority is calling this bean bull_hit what it is. After reading the Eiffel book and thinking about things like programming by contra

Oh thank God somebody in authority is calling this bean bull_hit what it is. After reading the Eiffel book and thinking about things like programming by contract and class invariants, the bean pattern which constructs empty, initially useless (or at least unreliable) objects seemed like a huge step back.