Improving assert-printing in DMD

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/01/2015 06:41 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 09/30/2015 03:10 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> I encourage making assert smarter seeing (a) it's already used
>> everywhere so the benefits will come for free  and (b) it's a built-in.
>> -- Andrei
>
> About (b): I'm surprised to see that you seem to have so fundamentally
> changed your attitude towards magical semantics for built-ins.

I haven't - I still think making "assert" a built-in and ascribing a 
keyword to it was a minor mistake. But then that sail has shipped, so 
let's make the best use of the situation. -- Andrei