assert semantic change proposal

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/5/2014 12:13 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> The way I see it, we need to educate D users to use 'assert' with the
> proper meaning,

I agree. We're starting with improving the spec wording.


> I think in the
> long run, this will turn out to be an important, revolutionary
> development not just in D, but in programming languages in general.

I agree. It also opens the door for programmers providing simple, checkable 
hints to the optimizer. I don't know how far we can go with that, but I suspect 
significant opportunity.