Unit testing with asserts: Why is assertHandler required to throw?

[bearophile]

Trip Volpe:
> Ah ha! I din't know that D had __LINE__ and __FILE__. I thought those had been done away with along with the preprocessor. It looks like they're a lot smarter than in C as well, since this works just fine:
> 
> test.d:
> 1   void main() {
> 2      printlocation();    // prints "test.d:2" (as opposed to "test.d:5")
> 3   }
> 4   
> 5   void printlocation( string file = __FILE__, int line = __LINE__ ) {
> 6      writefln( "%s:%d", file, line );
> 7   }
> 
> This still feels a little more hacky than I'd like, but it should do. Thanks! :-)

It looks like the bad special cased magic you can find in Perl :-)

Bye,
bearophile