On Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 16:31:46 UTC, bearophile wrote:
H. S. Teoh:It's only a bad idea because people abuse assert() where it's not appropriate.It's a bad idea because Walter seems unable to understand the difference between verifying and proving.Bye, bearophile
On the other hand, making assert a built-in that provides optimization hints has been proposed for C++17:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2014/n4154.pdf
