Go语言的创造者写道:
Go doesn't provide assertions. They are undeniably convenient, but our experience has been that programmers use them as a crutch to avoid thinking about proper error handling and reporting. Proper error handling means that servers continue operation after non-fatal errors instead of crashing. Proper error reporting means that errors are direct and to the point, saving the programmer from interpreting a large crash trace. Precise errors are particularly important when the programmer seeing the errors is not familiar with the code.
你对此有什么看法?
我非常不喜欢断言。但我不会说他们是邪恶的。
基本上，assert将做与未检查异常相同的事情，唯一的例外是assert(通常)不应该为最终产品保留。
If you build a safety net for yourself while debugging and building the system why would you deny this safety net for your customer, or your support help desk, or anyone that will get to use the software that you are currently building. Use exceptions exclusively for both asserts and exceptional situations. By creating an appropriate exception hierarchy you will be able to discern very quickly one from the other. Except this time the assert remains in place and can provide valuable information in case of failure that would otherwise be lost.
因此，我完全理解Go的创建者完全删除断言并强迫程序员使用异常来处理这种情况。对此有一个简单的解释，异常只是一种更好的工作机制为什么要坚持使用古老的断言?
我更倾向于避免在调试和发布中做不同事情的代码。
但是，在一个条件下中断调试器并获得所有文件/行信息，以及确切的表达式和确切的值是有用的。
拥有一个“只在调试中评估条件”的断言可能是一种性能优化，因此，它只在0.0001%的程序中有用——人们知道他们在做什么。在所有其他情况下，这是有害的，因为表达式实际上可能改变程序的状态:
assert(2 == shroedingerscat . getnummears ());
会使程序在调试和发布时做不同的事情。
我们开发了一组assert宏，可以在调试版和发布版中抛出异常。例如，THROW_UNLESS_EQ(a, 20);what()消息同时包含文件、行和a的实际值，等等，将抛出异常。只有宏才有这个功能。调试器可以配置为在特定异常类型的'throw'时中断。
