Why assert is not a function?

[Marco Sulla]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 23:11, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Basically, you are looking at two different philosophies:
>
> - Always double check, get good error message when something fails
>
> vs
>
> - check during testing and QA, turn off double-checks for production for best performance possible.

In a perfect world, I said the second option is the best. But for the
majority of projects I contributed, speed was not a critical issue. On
the contrary, it's very hard to get meaningful informations about
problems in production, so I'm in favour of the first school :)