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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:56:46 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 11/12/2014 02:47 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>:
>
>> Although to be honest I'd rather use something like "raise
>> RuntimeError('Unreachable code reached')" than "assert False" here. If
>> the expectation is that the code will never be executed, then there's
>> no reason to ever optimize it out.
>
> Asserts have nothing to do with them being optimized out. Asserts are
> communication.

Asserts are code that can stop your program.  That's a bit more than just communication.  And your example of how you 
use asserts shows a bad way to use them, which has been explained.  Apparently you refuse to learn from that, but 
hopefully somebody else will.

--
~Ethan~