[boost] Re: assert() replacement?

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-31 12:15:08

Kevlin Henney wrote:
> 
> Beman Dawes wrote:
> [...]
> Needs identified so far that assertion<>() doesn't meet :
> 
>    * Reporting of file and line.
>    * Parameterization of exception type.
> 
> Perhaps those last two can also be addressed.  Something to work
> towards.
> 
>    For boost library authors, the first need is perhaps not as great as
>    that for a user dotting their own code w/ assertions. Naming and
>    describing what constraint was violated is often more useful to a
>    library user than receiving a mysterious message about a piece of code
>    they have nothing to do w/!

This can easilly be done with a comment:

// must fobnicate before we tweak
assert (x ? t(3) : 3434==i+j);

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Valentin Bonnard