well then it's a bug: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11721
this is the 3rd regression I'm posting today! On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>wrote: > On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 15:52:06 Timothee Cour wrote: > > in std.utf shouldn't we throw UTFException instead of assert(0) in > stride, > > etc ? > > std.utf only uses assert(0) when that code should be unreachable. It's > used to > catch bugs in the implementation, not in a function's input. If anything in > std.utf ever hits an assert(0), it's a bug. A UTFException _is_ thrown > when a > std.utf function encounters invalid Unicode. It's certainly possible that > there's a bug involving assert(0) in std.utf, but there shouldn't be any > case > in all of Phobos where an assert(0) would actually be hit. > > - Jonathan M Davis >