From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: cq@htec.demon.co.uk
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] assertions and branch prediction
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:06:01 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202181706.SAA0000002179@beaune.inria.fr> (raw)
>From cq@htec.demon.co.uk Mon Feb 18 14:34:41 2002
>May I ask how
>| _ -> assert (not true); ()
>
>is different from
>
>| _ -> assert false; ()
>
>???
>From the manual:
> As a special case, "assert false" is reduced to "raise (Assert_failure
> ...)", which is polymorphic (and is not turned off by the -noassert
> option).
In contrast, "assert (not true)" is not polymorphic (but you don't
care when it is followed by a semicolon), and it is turned off by
-noassert like all normal assertions.
-- Damien
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2002-02-18 17:06 Damien Doligez [this message]
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2002-02-17 13:47 Damien Doligez
2002-02-18 13:41 ` Christopher Quinn
2002-02-15 17:01 james woodyatt
2002-02-18 14:00 ` Xavier Leroy
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