checkedint call removal

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/1/14, 8:28 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>On 08/01/2014 01:53 PM, Don wrote:
>> If you are disabling your asserts, but still believe that they may fail,
>> that means you're expecting your program to enter undefined behaviour!
>
> Nonsense. This claim is ignoring the current reality of software
> development. One would be expecting one's program to be buggy, but one
> would still think that _almost all_ assertions pass always and those
> that don't would be expected to pass _almost always_. How many pieces of
> non-trivial bug-free software did you write or _were required to work on
> without full knowledge about the code base_?
>
> In any case if one is _disabling_ one's asserts, one doesn't expect them
> to have any kind of effect whether they may fail or not.

This doesn't ring true at all in the circles I frequent. I'm with Don. 
-- Andrei