On 03/17/2011 06:38 PM, dsimcha wrote:
On 3/17/2011 7:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Sure, but there is plenty wrong with using enforce() for bug detection
even if alwaysAssert does not exist. For one thing, such uses encourage
others to misunderstand and misuse enforce.
Additionally, alwaysAssert is an obvious one liner. I think such things
need to be very frequently used to consider them part of the standard
library. Otherwise, we risk Phobos becoming a morass of trivia.
What makes you think it wouldn't be used very frequently? It seems silly
to me to turn off asserts in non-performance-critical bits of code just
because I don't want bounds checking or the more expensive asserts.
To me it sounds perfectly normal that there are integrity checks that
you want to keep at all times, whereas others you only want to keep in a
debug build.
Andrei
