OpenEuphoria

Re: Essential feature: assertions

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jan 29, 2001
• 692 views

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Henry" <ghenryca at LYCOS.COM>
To: "Euphoria" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Essential feature: assertions


[snip]

> Euphoria can and should implement assertions in a more elegant way than C.
All that's needed is an "assert" *keyword*, and the syntax "assert
<expression>". So one would write:
>
> assert id_vitalProc >= 0
>

I like this idea too. Plus something like ...

  with assert  -- Evaluate any assert statements
  without assert -- Ignore any assert statements

these would enable assert processing to occur during testing/debugging and
also to be skipped ("without assert") when running code where performance is
critical or if installed in production.  Though I personnally would want
assertions to execute even in production environments.

------
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
(Vote [1] The Cheshire Cat for Internet Mascot)



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