On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 08:18:03 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 8/31/2018 7:28 PM, tide wrote:
I'm just wondering but how would you code an assert to ensure
the variable for a title bar is the correct color? Just how
many asserts are you going to have in your real-time game that
can be expected to run at 144+ fps ?
Experience will guide you on where to put the asserts.
But really, just apply common sense. It's not just for
software. If you're a physicist, and your calculations come up
with a negative mass, you screwed up. If you're a mechanical
engineer, and calculate a force of billion pounds from dropping
a piano, you screwed up. If you're an accountant, and calculate
that you owe a million dollars in taxes on a thousand dollars
of income, you screwed up. If you build a diagnostic X-ray
machine, and the control software computes a lethal dose to
administer, you screwed up.
Apply common sense and assert on unreasonable results, because
your code is broken.
That's what he, and apparently you don't get. How are you going
to use an assert to check that the color of a title bar is valid?
Try and implement that assert, and let me know what you come up
with.
