From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-06-05T17:14:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Check assertion in Ruby

Paul Brannan wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 05:51:44AM +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> 
>>if DEBUG
>>  def assert
>>    raise "assertion failure" unless yield
>>  end
>>else
>>  def assert; end
>>end
>>
>>There is some overhead when not in DEBUG mode, but that
>>is the best you can do in Ruby as far as I know.
> 
> That's the best I know of that you could do in pure ruby.

Is anyone using cpp (C preprocessor) along with Ruby? I've always wanted 
to use it, but my laziness prevails everytime :-)

-- 
dave