More from Mark and Barry on Assert

Mark responded to Barry’s response to my post on Assert. Barry then responded to Mark and Kim and I added a little more in the comments. I did have some more to say, but Barry’s said most of it…

Anyway, so far only Vagn Johansen and the guru’s over on comp.lang.c++.moderated disagree with us… Anyone else fancy joining in? What I’d like to see is for someone who’s defending to show a situation where the alternatives that we’re proposing don’t work; but lets try and stay out of the realms of “what if the compiler is broken” and “what if there’s a hardware fault” if we can…

[Updated 3rd October]

See the following follow up postings: