assert semantic change proposal

[David Bregman via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 20:27:45 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> Well, it seems like the underlying idea is to treat assertion 
> failures more strongly than we do now.  So changes in how these 
> are handled by the runtime might be a side effect of this 
> proposal.

Again, since Walter's proposal only affects release mode, I don't 
see how exceptions or the runtime are related. What am I missing? 
You agree assertion failures (AssertError) are only thrown in 
debug mode, right?