Disallow side effects in assert

[Iain Buclaw]

On 3 February 2014 17:00, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Daniel Murphy:
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>> Enough to tell it _might_ have a side effect, not enough to know it
>> _will_. The number of false positives would make it near useless.
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> How many impure functions do you call in your asserts?


Rephrase to 'How many *functions* do you call in your asserts?'

If a function has a side effect (or returns), I'd have thought that
typically people want to store that value first, then test it using
assert().

Regards
Iain.