Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

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On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 03:39:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Those are environmental errors, not programming bugs, and 
> asserting for those conditions is the wrong approach.

The point is this: what happens in the transaction engine 
matters, what happens outside of it does not matter much.

Asserts do not belong in release code at all...