Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:04:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: kernel assertions Message-ID: <199607292004.WAA04122@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960729234251.29370A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from Michael Hancock at "Jul 30, 96 00:08:41 am"
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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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