Re: [boost] BOOST_ASSERT_IF(IF,THEN)

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-12 09:51:06

Peter Dimov skrev:
> Thorsten Ottosen:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I often find myself in the need of the above assertion mechanism where 
>> the actual assertion should only checked if the first condition is true.
>>
>> Of course, we could write this as
>>
>> if( IF )
>>   BOOST_ASSERT( THEN );
>>
>> but this has the potential downside that the compiler cannot 
>> completely optimize away the function calls inside the if-statement.
> 
> BOOST_ASSERT( !IF || THEN );
> 
> or
> 
> BOOST_ASSERT( IF? THEN: true );

yes, but I find that these become anoyingly hard to read.
Don't you?

-Thorsten