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Re:The C3 Programming Language by Phil_Latio on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:55PM (#46490993)
Well, the C3 developer could add more fine grained control if people need it...

I don't really see what's your problem. It's not so much different than disabling asserts in production. Some people don't do that, because they rather crash than walking into invalid program state - and that's fine too. It largely depends on the project in question.

Re:The C3 Programming Language by SkiFire13 on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:11AM (#46496086)
> It's not so much different than disabling asserts in production.

Disabling asserts would be equivalent to not having them at all, while this feature introduces _new_ UB. In "fast" mode it's equivalent to using C's `__builtin_assume` or Rust's `std::hint::assert_unchecked`, except it's marketed with a name that makes it appear a safety/correctness feature.