[Article Contest, first draft] D Slices

[Jesse Phillips]

Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

> I always wonder about that.  One of the issues with assert for people  
> "feeling" out the language is, a passing assert doesn't seem to do  
> anything.
> 
> For instance, in this example, if you take the code I wrote, and compile  
> it, you'll get a loud assertion error (proving the assertion runs and  
> fails).
> 
> If you take your code and run it, you get a command prompt.  It doesn't  
> really help you see how it works.
> 
> I'm contemplating switching it to a writeln instead ;)
> 
> -Steve

Go with writeln, I understand that concern. The counter point I have is that this is how unittests work and much of the documentation has been written.