version(assert) and Phobos release unittest build

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

Hello all,

Some unittests I've been writing for Phobos involve using 
assertThrown!AssertError to check that assert failures are indeed triggered 
where they should be.

Surprise surprise, this fails on the release unittest build, because of course 
the assertion statements are stripped out.  I assumed that using version(assert) 
{ ... } to surround the assertThrown statement would fix this, but it doesn't -- 
the assertThrown keeps being called and keeps claiming that no AssertError was 
thrown.

I guess I could do version(release) {} { assertThrown(...); } but that seems 
kind of ugly.  Any alternatives?

Thanks & best wishes,

     -- Joe