Debug arguments?

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"bearophile"  wrote in message news:dmpcwdctnuenxdlpfysl at forum.dlang.org...

> Sometimes you want to give arguments to a function that are only used for 
> debug builds. So is it a good idea to introduce debug arguments (only 
> allowed as trailing arguments, like the arguments with a default value)?

I don't think this is a good idea.  I've never liked code that did this 
using macros, and it wasn't just because it was using macros.