DIP 1006 - Preliminary Review Round 1

[rikki cattermole]

On 27/11/2017 7:20 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 November 2017 at 12:09:37 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 26/11/2017 11:59 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>> One suggestion: replace -release=assert with -release=body, so in the 
>>> above, you would have:
>>>
>>>      -release=body,in,out,invariant
>>>
>>> ... which has the nice intuitive property of specifying _which bits 
>>> of code_ release criteria will be applied to.
>>>
>>> In other words, -release=body would result in asserts being removed 
>>> from function bodies _and only there_.  That would make clearer that 
>>> we're not removing asserts from e.g. unittests (or indeed contracts 
>>> or invariants).
>>
>> Agreed that looks good +1
> 
> What would be the appropriate way to follow up on that idea?  The last I 
> saw DIP 1006 was undergoing formal review, but the end of that period 
> seems to have passed with no further follow-up.
> 
> I could always write up an alternative DIP, but I don't know if that 
> would be the most constructive way forward.

Contact Mike&Author of the DIP.