Am 01.08.2014 18:47, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
"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.
It's not like adding two sentences describing this would take forever.
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.
They could be told "look, it's written in the language spec (and has
been for a long time), deal with it".
Maybe there still would be /some/ discussion, but certainly not as much
as we're currently seeing - and it could be ignored of a good reason.
Cheers,
Daniel
