[swift-evolution] Proposal: Initialization should not be required in precondition(false) case.

[Amir Michail]

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 12, 2016, at 9:15 AM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 12, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Radosław Pietruszewski <radexpl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I think what you mean is `fatalError()`.
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>>> You can’t do what you suggest, because you can’t prove that the expression passed to precondition will evaluate to false. (You theoretically could if the compiler checked for you passing `false`, but that makes no sense. Just go with `fatalError` or `preconditionFailure`.)
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>> What’s wrong with having the compiler explicitly check for “false”?
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> Weird special cases make the compiler less predictable.

True, but not having them requires deeper knowledge of the standard libraries.

In practice, just checking for “false” would solve this problem.

> 
> -Chris