Re: Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/31/2014 5:38 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
Transactions roll back when there is contention for resources and/or when you
have any kind of integrity issue. That's why you have retries… so no, it is not
only something wrong with the input. Something is temporarily wrong with the
situation overall.

Those are environmental errors, not programming bugs, and asserting for those 
conditions is the wrong approach.