Re: abort or verify?

On 2004-11-10 03:29+0000, Julian Foad wrote:
>
> My reasons were:
>
> 1) Consistency: we should use one or the other, with few exceptions.

+-0.0

> 2) Informative message when the condition arises.

+0.1

> 3) Neatness (tidiness) of source code.

+0.1

> 4) Not checking for bugs while running a release build.

-1.0, so now we have a nice relaese build which smiles and purrs to
you all the time, but could corrupt your data behind your back? Sweet.

> Let me propose to use "verify" instead of "assert", where "verify" is
> defined to be the same as "assert" except that it is always enabled (i.e.
> even when NDEBUG is defined). This will achieve points (1), (2) and (3),
> and will leave the checks active all the time.
>
> Would this be acceptable to everyone?

Mayby.

BR, Jani

-- 
Jani Averbach
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