checkedint call removal

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/31/2014 12:39 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 2:30 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> Did you read the article?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertion_%28computing%29#Disabling_assertions
>>
>>
>> '[...] disabling assertion checking can mean that a program that would
>> have
>> aborted will continue to run. This is sometimes preferable.'
>>
>> This is not what DMD does in -release where assertions are 'disabled'. It
>> follows a diametrally opposite philosophy.
>
> Not at all. The Wikipedia article does not argue that the program will
> continue in a valid state.

Then you must also hold the belief that continuing to run in an invalid 
state is sometimes preferable?