On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:55:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/1/2018 5:47 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
All in all, John is very non-committal about the whole thing.
He probably got tired of arguing about it :-)
Let's face it, the term "assert" has been poisoned by decades of
ambiguity.
Come up with another name, (names are free), explicitly define it
to mean whatever you mean, explicitly define your intentions, and
use it the way you think it should be used, and _never_ use the
word "assert" again, .
So much pain side stepped.
ps: I entirely agree with you on asserts, but years of extremely
painful experience tells me, give up on the word now, but not the
concept.
