Max Samukha Wrote: > You have a point. With current dmd, you can include unittests in the > release build. So why not asserts? But I don't think it's a good > solution to force people who don't want asserts in a final product to > prepend each and every assert with 'debug'. For assertions that should > stay in production, use 'if' conditions in D1 or std.contracts.enforce > in D2. Anyway, it would be nice to have a switch to retain debug > assertions in the release build.
LDC has the -enable-* and -disable-* command line options for asserts, array bounds checking, invariants and contracts to allow fine grained control over what is emitted and what isn't.