On Monday, October 11, 2010 07:31:54 Sean Kelly wrote: > Christopher Bergqvist Wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Time for some Sunday nitpicking. While reading TDPL, one thing that stuck > > out to me was the special behavior of assert(false). Consider the > > following program compiled with "-release". > > -release is misnamed. It should be -unsafe or -unchecked or something like > that. Range checking for arrays is also disabled, as are contracts. > These are all things that some people actually want turned on in > "released" software.
I thought that bounds checking was supposed to be enabled in release mode unless it was @trusted or @system. Of course, given that @safe, @trusted, and @system aren't much used at this point (and need work to be properly useable), that would mean that most code now would not have it enabled with -release. What I find worse than -release though is -debug. -debug tends to imply debug mode, which in most people's minds is the opposite of release mode, but -debug just has to do with enabling debug blocks and has no releation to -release. So, both -release and -debug cause at least some level of confusion. - Jonathan M Davis
