status of D optimizers benefiting from contracts ?

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On Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 16:31:46 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> H. S. Teoh:
>
>> It's only a bad idea because people abuse assert() where it's 
>> not appropriate.
>
> It's a bad idea because Walter seems unable to understand the 
> difference between verifying and proving.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

On the other hand, making assert a built-in that provides 
optimization hints has been proposed for C++17:

http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2014/n4154.pdf