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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Assertions
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:06 PM, J David <j.david.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> > PHPUnit will catch the exception and tell you that an assertion failed,
> but it will still be able to continue running the rest of the testsuite.
> > A framework (or front controller in general) can easily catch the
> exception at the top level and display an appropriate debugging page
> (rather than doing ugly register_shutdown_function hacks that are necessary
> to have even remotely graceful handling of fatals).
> > A deamon or server will be able to process further requests, even if one
> particular had an assertion failure.
>
> Those are three great examples of how assertions are frequently misused.
>

I would greatly appreciate a more detailed explanation as to how these
examples abuse assertions. In particular the first two seem very reasonable
to me, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise.

Nikita

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