RE: [boost] bounds checking in array.hpp

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-17 10:15:39

At 02:52 PM 12/16/2000 -0800, Jesse Jones wrote:

 >...  But
 >saying that we cannot use assert because someone *may* define NDEBUG
 >inconsistently sounds like a terrible idea to me. At some point you have
 >to make a trade off. If the vendors would do something as simple as
 >adding asserts to std::string and std::vector to catch range errors I
 >have no doubt that this would quickly save many man years of debugging
 >time. Of course this may cause problems for a few because of the ODR, but 

 >I think the balance very much tilts in favor of using asserts.

Agreed.

--Beman