Re: [boost] Compile-time assert

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-09 12:02:27

Johan Paulsson <boost.org_at_[hidden]> writes:

> In this case, with the compilers I used, I do not see a big difference 
> in quality of the error message.

Of course not, especially because in this case you seem to have left
out all but the very useless ASSERT(false) case.

>> Also, the first test, which simply asserts a bool constant, is not
>> very interesting from an error-message-quality point of view.  You
>> can't expect much useful information from such an assertion; it's
>> similar to
>> 
>>       assert(false);
>> 
>> at runtime.
>> 
>
> I agree, I should have left it out of the compiler output.

So why did you throw out the only assertion that can possibly show
useful results?

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Dave Abrahams
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