I'm sorry, but it is just unreasonable to expect us to consider a random
backwards incompatible language change just because you can't get your
developers to follow a reasonable coding guideline.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:30 AM Chris . <chris.the.develope...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's what I did on my first day :D
> Setting up my dev environment for the first time, the 'run this to make
> sure it is set up' script was failing. After walking the debugger through
> several 'this should not happen' oddities, the developer that was helping
> me eventually figured out I was running with '-O'. Ended my first day with
> "No-one uses -O, don't use it."
>
> After spending some time thinking about it, I concluded that I can't be
> the only developer to be in this situation. I think that if the bar was
> higher than 'Don't use -O' for using assertions as part of program logic,
> people new to the language wont be as likely to pick up this habit.
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