On 11/09/2014 05:24 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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.
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Some do, but that's basically orthogonal to why this is a bad idea.
