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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:35:45 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:09:57 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
>> I suppose you could claim that F is only intended to be used in 
>> Preconditions and thus should be hidden somehow. But I find that dubious - 
>> how is the programmer going to avoid triggering the precondition if they 
>> can't call F to check?
> 
> There is more in that. Preconditions semantically do not belong to the
> program.

I guess that Assertion_Policy helps restoring the bug-free,
assertion-less, genuine, trouble-free, original program.

IMHO, preconditions belong to any program that is honest
about real-life programming practices. ("Our programs do
include checks affecting its operation just like anything
in it.")