From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Ada and C++ asserts.
Date: 1996/07/16
Date: 1996-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Jul16143721@organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4sf08d$1ij@peru.it.earthlink.net
In article <4sf08d$1ij@peru.it.earthlink.net> Eric Kline <ekline@earthlink.net> writes:
> In C++, Asserts are to check the programmers mistakes not the
> end users mistakes. You dont use asserts to check users
> mistakes at all. If you do, you will quickly learn that
> asserts are only active in debug mode. So, You as the
> programmer will know what YOU did wrong
That's how assertions are used pretty much anywhere. The user model
should be handled differently (at a higher level...)
/Jon
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-15 0:00 Ada and C++ asserts Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Giuliano Carlini
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Ian Johnston
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Richard Curnow
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Eric Kline
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Ian Johnston
1996-07-17 0:00 ` James McCallum
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