Redefining api_check to throw harmful?

[Eric Scouten <scouten@...>]

We are, for obvious reasons, not enamored of functions that call abort 
(), so we are considering redefining the api_check macro in  
Lightroom's build of Lua to throw instead of assert (which ultimately  
leads to abort).

In our initial testing, we've not found any bad side effects caused  
by this redefinition. Is anyone here aware of hidden consequences  
that we might not have discovered?

-Eric