On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:12:06PM +0000, bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > H. S. Teoh: > > >Walter *did* mention recently that he was planning to eventually take > >advantage of information in assert()'s as optimizer hints. Not sure > >when this will happen, though, but it seems inevitable at some point. > > And it caused a storm, because it's an awfully bad idea. [...]
It's only a bad idea because people abuse assert() where it's not appropriate. T -- I'm still trying to find a pun for "punishment"...
