Debug.Assert vs Exceptions

Question

Surprisingly I was only able to find one previous question on SO about this subject, and I\'d just like to get the community \"Vote of Confidence\" (or not!) on my approach.

Answer 1

It depends on language, is assert if you syntax sugar then you should use it. however in Java asserts need to be turn on for this to work, so exception is better. However its always better to have specific exception, so here it should be IllegalStateException.