I hate class destructors with a burning passion

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/10/21 8:07 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 June 2021 at 17:54:06 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 09.06.21 04:37, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> Allocating via the GC is in assert is just ridiculous, as the program 
>>> is going to exit shortly anyway. There won't ever be a need to run a 
>>> collection on it. Just malloc away and fuggeddabootet.
>>
>> AssertError is still *caught* /by the language/ on in contract 
>> inheritance.
> 
> I'd say, lower assert failures in contracts to a different function, 
> say, _d_contractFailed(), which can do a different thing, say, throw 
> ContractError, and child contract can catch only this specific 
> ContractError instead of any Error.

What about asserts in functions called by the contract? I guess 
technically they are not part of the contract, just poor coding, but 
people may rely on those asserts in some cases.

-Steve