On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Indeed. In C, assert() will abort the program if it is
enabled, which
is hard to miss. It is not comparable to the PHP assert() function.
...except PHP's assert() *also* aborts the program if enabled. What am I
missing here?
The reasons I don't like assert() are:
1. It doesn't throw an exception
2. It acts like eval()
We could have a library of PHPUnit-style assertion functions which
throw exceptions and don't act like eval(), I would be fine with that.
Maybe MWAssert::greaterThan( $foo, $bar ) or something.
1. It's fairly trivial to use assert_options() to make assertions throw
exceptions if you really wanted to while developing.
2. Except it's not. Again, you're welcome to give an example where code
provided as a string in an assertion is not exactly the same as having the
code hardcoded.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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