On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:33:57 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Right now, the language has enough power to express assert as a library
function, as opposed to a primitive construct. (See e.g. enforce.) I
think it would be good to relegate assert to object.d.
This also brings up "lazy", which seems to be quite botched. Are there
suggestions on how to replicate its functionality in a different way? I
even seem to recall lazy was discussed as a disadvantage in the recent
dialog on reddit, see
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qf8i/i_wrote_some_d_today_and_its_completely_blowing/
I personally believe it's useful to be able to pass an unevaluated
expression into a function, for example assert and enforce themselves
use that.
But let's open this for discussion: should assert and/or lazy be
removed? If not, why not? It yes, why? How can we replicate their
functionality?
No one seems to have mentioned this, but please don't overlook that when
compiling in release mode, assert (or at least assert(0)) works as a
compiler hint.
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:thecybersha...@gmail.com
