Re: [Caml-list] assert caught by try with _

[Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>]

>But you might really want to catch assert failures!
>For instance if you're building a debugging tool.

Okay, but it seems like a compile time switch would serve both 
interests.  Plus, it seems like the "assert should blow up" usage would be 
far more common, since the number of people writing non-debugging-tool code 
is far larger than the number writing debugging tool code.

Another way of thinking about this is that almost everybody re-#defines 
assert in production C/C++ programs to do their own assert handling during 
development (whether it's printing out additional information, allowing you 
to drop into the debugger, popping up a message box, sending bug email, 
whatever).  With assert hard-coded into ocaml, you can't do this.  I could 
use a different function than assert, but then it won't compile out, 
etc.  I could use camlp4 to make my own assert, but then I take a 
compilation speed hit on all my files, etc.

Anyway, it sounds like this behavior isn't surprising to anybody else, so 
I'll add it to the list of things that only I think are broken about ocaml.  :)

Chris


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