assert(0) behavior

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 20:23:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/4/2015 4:53 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Any assert(0) in druntime or phobos with a message printed is 
>> an error. It's
>> compiled in release mode.
>
> When you're debugging phobos, you aren't compiling in release 
> mode.
>
> But I've also been of the opinion, not widely shared, that any 
> programmer supplied messages in asserts are pointless.

Would you be of the opinion that assert should be a statement 
rather than an expression ? unreadability in the middle of 
expressions, especially when evaluation order is not well 
defined, is close to impossible to get right.