DIP33: A standard exception hierarchy

[Walter Bright]

On 4/2/2013 10:42 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> The -release switch practically screams "use me in
> production code", but what's the point of bounds checking if it is only ever
> used while developers are testing their code?

For one thing, you can turn it on and off and actually measure how much the 
extra checks are costing.

For another, it's up to the programmer how he wants to play it.