"Daniel Gibson" wrote in message news:lrgcei$211u$1...@digitalmars.com...
I'm a bit surprised that back then your reaction was not "well, that's a neat idea, but people must know about it, so let's make it explicit in the documentation".
Haha, I think back then there were much more serious issues with D, like abundant segfaults and a development team of ~2.
If assert() would have been documented or even advertised as "can be used for optimizations by compilers in release mode" from day one, this discussion wouldn't have started or at least would have been over very soon.
I expect that even if it had been documented, people would have completely ignored it, and would still be arguing for the exact same positions.
