checkedint call removal

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/01/2014 05:17 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/31/2014 12:37 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 31.07.2014 21:19, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> That's the way assert in C/C++ conventionally worked. But this is
>>> changing. Bearophile's reference made it clear that Microsoft C++ 2013
>>> has already changed, and I've seen discussions for doing the same with
>>> gcc and clang.
>>
>> This will break so much code :-/
>
> Maybe you're right.

He is.

> I've always thought that assert() was a simple and
> obvious concept,

It is.

> and am genuinely surprised at all the varied (and even
> weird) interpretations of it expressed here.

Don't throw them all in one bag.

> I've never heard such
> things in my 30+ years of using assert().
>
> I have seen some misuse of assert() before, but the author of them knew
> he was misusing it and didn't have an issue with that.
>
> I can't even get across the notion of what a program's inputs are. Sheesh.
> ...

You didn't try. You were obviously being misunderstood and just repeated 
the same wording.

> Or perhaps some people are just being argumentative. I can't really
> tell. I can tell, however, than many of these sub-threads have ceased to
> contain any useful discussion.

Are you now trying to generalize over opinions that are not your own as 
wrong by only refuting some of them?

All the fallacious reasoning you have put forward in this thread is 
really tiring. Please don't ignore logic.