On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 09:27:49 UTC, John Burton wrote:
[...]I therefore feel like I ought to not use assert and should instead validate my assumptions with an if statement and a throw or exit or something.
Yes, that's the way of doing. assert() are just used to test the program. the -release option in DMD disable all the assert() (excepted assert(0) which is a bit special), so that in a release version, only Throwable objects can be used after a failure detected.
