On 12/01/12 4:34 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 12-01-2012 16:57, Manfred Nowak wrote:
Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
Is there any reason parentheses are required
Yes.
for all other use cases, it would be a nice thing to have.
Maybe, but only when no `assert'-expression(!) is evaluated ever ...
Because making parenthesis optional for `assert' would introduce
ambiguities.
-manfred
Right, it would only make sense when it's used as a statement
expression. In all other cases, it wouldn't work, of course.
- Alex
assert can also have a message:
assert(x == 0, "What's going on!?");
This would look odd without parentheses.
assert x == 0, "What's going on!?";
Not to mention that it would be ambiguous with the comma operator:
assert (a, b); // is this the comma operator, or two arguments?
