[TUHS] To NDEBUG or not to NDEBUG, that is the question

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> One must question whether `assert` is the right thing or not, though;
> as an interface, it's pretty limited: a thing can either be true or
> not, but any surrounding information is not preserved; for example,
> one often wants to assert whether two things are equal, but if they
> are not, it's often very useful to know what the actual values are:
> `assert` doesn't give you that.

It can be done, it's just not pretty:

	assert(answer == 42 ? true :
		fprintf(stderr, "answer = %d, expected 42\n", answer),
		fflush(stderr), false);

Note the use of the comma operator.  The joys of Obfuscated C. :-)

(I do get your main point.)

Arnold