On 03/17/2011 05:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/17/2011 1:49 PM, dsimcha wrote:
== 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.
if (!condition) { writeln("my message %s %s", __FILE__, __LINE__);
assert(0); }
I am strongly opposed to using enforce() for bug detection.
There's nothing wrong with encapsulating this idiom (if frequent).
That's what essentially alwaysAssert does. So you're right but without
contradicting dsimcha's suggestion.
Andrei
