Re: RFC: expectations/assertions

I support the idea behind improving assert; I really should be able to say 'disable assertions' somehow and then assertions would have no impact at runtime. I have not reviewed the changes for the revised RFC at this time, but I wanted to voice my support for the general idea. Also: > assert never was a good thing to use This is just nonsense. Properly used asserts are fundamental in defensive programming and you can quite a bit of literature about it. Perhaps Pierre meant to say, "assert never was a good thing to use *in PHP*" and then I would agree with him because of the currently poor implementation, not because they are bad in principle.