Do you use assertions? [closed]

Answer 1

Yes, I use asserts all the time, basically whenever I'm making an assumption that:

1. Can be checked with a fairly simple predicate.
2. Isn't obviously true simply from reading the nearby code.

However, for asserts that are likely to have a negligible impact on performance, I use the enforce function in the D programming language standard library instead of assert. This does basically the same thing as assert except that it stays around in release mode. For more expensive assertions, I use assert, which is stripped from release mode builds.