[swift-evolution] Proposal: remove "assert" and always use "precondition" instead.
Adrian Kashivskyy
adrian.kashivskyy at me.com
Wed Dec 16 03:06:21 CST 2015
> I want ALL my asserts to be active in release code.
What's the problem in using `precondition` then?
Pozdrawiam – Regards,
Adrian Kashivskyy
> Wiadomość napisana przez Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> w dniu 15.12.2015, o godz. 00:13:
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>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 6:09 PM, sune.foldager at me.com wrote:
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>>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 00:01, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> What about these renamings?
>>>
>>> assert => debugAssert
>>>
>>> precondition => assert
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>> I think precondition is a better name because it clearly expresses that this is an expected precondition for calling the method. Precondition is similar to Microsoft code contract’s Contract.Requires.
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> I want ALL my asserts to be active in release code. Correctness is more important than performance for me. I suspect this is also the case with most programmers.
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>> Also, the traditional use of assert (also in other languages) is for guarding against your own programmer errors, which I think most people expect when they see assert. It may be useful for an assert that’s still active in optimised builds, true. I guess that could be called assert! or assertAlways.
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>> -Sune
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