checkedint call removal

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/28/2014 8:53 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Daniel Murphy:
>
>> One murky area is that assert(0) is currently used to mean both 'unreachable'
>> and 'unimplemented'.  It's unclear what the compiler is allowed to do with an
>> assert(0) in release mode.
>
> I'd still like to have a halt() in D, and have assert(0) with the same semantics
> of the other asserts. In many cases when you have a different feature it's good
> to also give it a different name.

The marginal utility of all these proposals is pretty much zero. assert(0) 
serves just fine.