Is Java assert broken?

Question

While poking around the questions, I recently discovered the assert keyword in Java. At first, I was excited. Something useful I didn\'t already know! A more

Answer 1

Every language I've ever seen with assertions comes with the capability of shutting them off. When you write an assertion you should be thinking "this is silly, there's no way in the universe this could ever be false" -- if you think it could be false, it should be an error check. The assertion is just to help you during development if something goes horribly wrong; when you build the code for production you disable them to save time and avoid (hopefully) superfluous checks