Why not just add a // TODO or // FIXME comment?

Saagar Jha

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It’s quite common for an assertion/precondition that you thought should hold 
> actually does not yet there is no bug. In that case, you might want to remind 
> yourself of this fact by commenting out the assertion/precondition (instead 
> of deleting it) so that you don’t make the same mistake in the future by 
> inserting such assertions/preconditions into the code.
> 
> However, it would be nice to have explicit support for 
> assertions/preconditions that don’t always hold where there is no bug.
> 
> For example:
> 
> preconditionNotAlwaysTrue( list.isEmpty )
> 
> When your app finishes running, the IDE could show you all such 
> preconditions/assertions that you thought fail sometimes that did not fail in 
> that particular run. In that case, you might consider switching them to 
> normal preconditions/assertions provided your code has now evolved to the 
> point where they always hold.
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