[armedbear-devel] debug assert considered bad for health

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 6 May 2010 18:53, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since Java doesn't have a standard macro facility or a concept like eval,
>> I can't think of an wasy way to output the tested assertion without
>> repeating the string twice (which tends to lead to errors in my experience).
> My java buddy says use this facility:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/lang/assert.html

That doesn't, unfortunately, solve the concern Mark states above. What we'd like
to have is capability to say
Assert((5 + 6 + 7) == 18);
and have that output the parameters in string form and as computed
values as well.
You can do something like that pretty easily with lisp, but not with java. ;)