@trust is an encapsulation method, not an escape

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/6/2015 9:49 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 21:08:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 1. exceptions are not for debugging the logic of your program
>> 2. do not use exceptions to recover from logic bugs in your program
>
> OK, this is nothing new, but still doesn't answer my question.

You wrote "is clearly a program bug". Therefore use assert(). It's as simple as 
that.