DIP 1006 - Preliminary Review Round 1

[Olivier FAURE via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at 17:16:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Overall, I support the idea of this DIP.
>
> However, as others have mentioned, it needs to make it clear 
> whether/how `-contracts=assert` here interacts with unittests. 
> According to the discussion, apparently a different druntime 
> function is used for asserts in unittests? If so, this needs to 
> be clearly stated in the DIP.

Agreed.

The simplest behavior I could imagine for this switch is 
"override everything else". That is, no matter which other switch 
is used (release, unittests), the -contracts switch has the final 
say on which tests are enabled and which are suppressed.