assert(false) in release == splinter in eye

[Sean Kelly]

Christopher Bergqvist Wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Time for some Sunday nitpicking. While reading TDPL, one thing that stuck
> out to me was the special behavior of assert(false). Consider the following
> program compiled with "-release".

-release is misnamed.  It should be -unsafe or -unchecked or something like that.  Range checking for arrays is also disabled, as are contracts.  These are all things that some people actually want turned on in "released" software.