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I think we just disagree on what asserts are for. I consider asserts to mean "If this isn't true, there is no way to continue. Something has gone horribly wrong

I think we just disagree on what asserts are for. I consider asserts to mean "If this isn't true, there is no way to continue. Something has gone horribly wrong. Just Stop. Now." I suppose I could make up a new function, called say 'check', which basically did exactly the same thing as assert. But why bother? assert is already there and does what I want.

dllthomas 10y ago
Because it's context dependant that assert does what you want. If there's no way to continue, you should also be ending the program in production builds, probably with a prettier error message.