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  3. September 2003

RE: Assert in RPG/ILE

I like to leave the asserts in the code.  I only use assert() in places
where I'm convinced that it can NEVER be false.   If my assumption is
wrong, I'd *much* rather have a program that crashes than one where the
bug "sneaks by" and potentially causes incorrect behavior or corrupted
production data.

Naturally, for errors that I expect *will* happen, I handle them
gracefully rather than use assert()


On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Rich Duzenbury wrote:
>
> I'm curious, do you plan to leave the asserts in the production version of
> the code, or are you limiting them to the debug version?  In a general 'C'
> environment, I would expect the asserts to be compiled only into the debug
> version, but I haven't made any decisions about what I might do in RPG yet.
>

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