downs wrote:
To clarify for a few criticisms that have come up in IRC: this is meant as a rule of thumb to fall back on where no other considerations are present.For instance, const and shared are type constructors, and as such hard to do in the standard library. To my knowledge, assert() for instance has no such mitigating considerations.
assert statements are skipped in release mode. We'd need a version(norelease) or something if assert() was to be moved to the standard library.
-Lars
