Java assertions underused

Question

I\'m wondering why the assert keyword is so underused in Java? I\'ve almost never seen them used, but I think they\'re a great idea. I certainly much prefer the

Answer 1

@Don, you are frustrated that assertion are turned off by default. I was also, and thus wrote this little javac plugin that inlines them (ie emits the bytecode for if (!expr) throw Ex rather than this silly assert bytecode.

If you include fa.jar in your classpath while compiling Java code, it will do its magic and then tell

Note: %n assertions inlined.

@see http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/adriankuhn/javacompiler/forceassertions and alternatively on github https://github.com/akuhn/javac