You would likely want to ensure debug related code could be optimized away / or not be included in release builds. I am not sure how a function would achieve that.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:15 AM Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <<a href="mailto:gribozavr@gmail.com" target="_blank">gribozavr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Hi Erica,</span><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Based on Joe's rationale that you are quoting, I think the intent is</span><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">that we want to restrict this directive to be statement-level only.</span><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">The API vended by a module should not be affected by the build mode.</span><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Dmitri</span><br style="font-family:Palatino-Roman;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Could the debug build test take the form of a standard non-private function then</div><div>instead of _isDebugAssertConfiguration()? If the test is limited to methods, </div><div>introducing #if-style tests would be ugly.</div><div><br></div><div>How likely or easy is it for me to reframe the request for testing for debug to be as</div><div>simple as:</div><div><br></div><div>`if debugBuild() {...}`</div><div><br></div><div>with `debugBuild` vended by the standard library instead of as a build</div><div>configuration test?</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>-- E</div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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