I love assert

[Ethan Furman]

On 11/30/2014 12:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> Ah, wait, I see the reference. You're talking about the quote from James O
> Coplien:
> 
>     "An even more professional approach is to leave the assertions 
>     in the code when you ship, and to automatically file a bug report
>     on behalf of the end user and perhaps to try to re-start the 
>     application every time an assertion fails."
> 
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me (modulo privacy considerations). Many modern
> software already does this: Firefox, Windows, KDE all have forms of crash
> reporting that will automatically submit bug reports to the developers for
> you. And Firefox at least will try (and generally succeed) to automatically
> restart after a crash.

The error-catching/reporting/restarting framework is fine.  My assertion (pun intended) is that building that framework
on assert, which can be unknowingly disabled by the end-user, is foolish.

--
~Ethan~

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