Re: Cheap runtime asserts

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glathoud wrote:

> The intent is precisely to crash early in cases where the consequences
> will *surely* lead to a *non-recoverable* crash, that is unacceptable in
> production.

AISB, the approach will crash also in those cases where the consequences of 
using the asserted feature will _not_ (surely) lead to a non-recoverable 
crash.  Therefore, it is nonsense.

Please do not top-post, and do get a real name.

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Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-04 22:00 -0800
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-12-05 20:18 +0100
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-06 11:19 -0800
      Re: Cheap runtime asserts Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-12-06 23:41 +0100
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-12-05 12:00 -0800
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-06 11:34 -0800
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts JJ <jaejunks@glegooilma-swapit.com> - 2012-12-06 07:29 +0000
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-06 11:40 -0800
      Re: Cheap runtime asserts JJ <jaejunks@glegooilma-swapit.com> - 2012-12-07 12:03 +0000
        Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-10 23:46 -0800
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 23:00 +0100
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-11 00:07 -0800

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