assert(0) behavior

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On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 23:57:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> OK, this brings up another debate. The thing that triggered all 
> this is an issue with core.time, see issue 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14863
>
> [...]

Why not just " stderr.writeln(errMsg); assert(0);"?