SHORT Re: Suggestion: "fix" assert(obj)

[Jascha Wetzel]

Ary Manzana wrote:
>  If you call
> assert(someObject.property) then you still get a segfault if someObject 
> is null, and here it doesn't seam reasonable for the compiler to check 
> if someObject is null.

yep, the assert can wrap an expression and therefore an arbitrary amount 
of code. it's the same problem as with checking for AVs in the whole 
program in general.