• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Mar 26 2011

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Jonathan M Davis Wrote:

 So, there is a clear and distinct difference between the intended uses of 
 assert and exceptions (and therefore enforce). They have very different roles. 
 The question then is not what their roles are but what you need a particular 
 function to do - e.g. treat it's input as user input or treat it as local to 
 the program (and therefore a bug if it's wrong).


I don't think it's a terminological question, it's a practical question, every
piece of code should do something useful. Ok, assert checks for bugs. The
question is should these checks be removed and why.