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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: kernel assertions
From:       J Wunsch <j () uriah ! heep ! sax ! de>
Date:       1996-07-29 20:04:51
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As Michael Hancock wrote:

> >    Blech. Macros are evil unless they actually do something real to improve
> > the code. Please, let's NOT adopt this practice.

> Assertions are the most under-rated software engineering tool I can think
> of. 

But also the IMHO most misnamed tool in the standard.  It's (at least
for me as a non-native speaker) absolutely unobvious what happens for
which condition.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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