alwaysAssert() [was: Against enforce()]
dsimcha
dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 17 13:49:11 PDT 2011
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> On 3/17/2011 12:32 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> > I've asked for this before and I'll ask again: Can we **please** put an
> > alwaysAssert() function (or an abbreviation of this to make it less verbose) in
> > Phobos? I proposed this once before and it wasn't well liked for some reason
> > This reminded me to persist a little about it.
> Not always the prettiest, but you can write:
> if (!condition) assert(0);
> The assert(0) will be replaced with a HLT instruction even in release mode.
This is better than nothing, but not enough to convince me to stop abusing
enforce(). I much prefer to have a real alwaysAssert() function that gives a
file, a line number and an error message.
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