On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 04:09:12PM +0200, ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
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> Failing asserts are a messy part of the language. They are supposed to
> be:
>
> 1) not catchable, because they indicate a bug in the program;
> 2) catchable in order to be testable;
> 3) assumed impossible for optimization purposes.
>
> Those goals are at odds with each other, and I don't think the spec
> manages to consolidate them.
Not entirely true. See paragraph 3 in:
https://dlang.org/spec/unittest.html
and 10.24.11.3 in:
https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#assert_expressions
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