Hi colin,

My point is not to argue pros and cosn but just sharing an experience.

I was last year in the PhD commitee of  Benoit Baudry measuring the  
impact of code quality based on the number of assertions in the code.  
This is french http://www.irisa.fr/triskell/publis/2003/Baudry03b.pdf  
but I'm sure that this guy published a paper in english.
I'm looking for it and I will post it. What I learned at that time is  
that really few assertions are really really worth.
I said to myself that if I would introduce an assertion mechanism if I  
would design a new language because its data were so convincing and he  
was neutral in the story not specially pros or language war kinds of  
stuff.  So I was really shocked that I missed something like that and  
thinking after his presentation. I browsed the Phd but I could not find  
that because it was not the main point of his PhD.

Stef

On 9 mars 04, at 18:24, Colin Putney wrote:

> About 6 months ago I posted a message about why I think unit tests are  
> better than assertions. I won't repeat it, but just provide the link:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2003-October/ 
> 067876.html
>