== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > On 3/17/2011 12:32 PM, dsimcha wrote: > > I've asked for this before and I'll ask again: Can we **please** put an > > alwaysAssert() function (or an abbreviation of this to make it less > > verbose) in > > Phobos? I proposed this once before and it wasn't well liked for some > > reason > > This reminded me to persist a little about it. > Not always the prettiest, but you can write: > if (!condition) assert(0); > The assert(0) will be replaced with a HLT instruction even in release mode.
This is better than nothing, but not enough to convince me to stop abusing enforce(). I much prefer to have a real alwaysAssert() function that gives a file, a line number and an error message.