Re: Essential feature: assertions
Derek,
I agree 100%. This is the way to do it. Eiffel (since I used it as an example)
lets you turn off all that extensive checking, once the code is debugged to your
satisfaction. For performance.
George
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:40:51
Derek Parnell wrote:
>----- 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]
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>> 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
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