Re: Disabling assert function

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I wasn't able to find an answer to a seemingly basic question anywhere:
> Is it possible to disable "assert" function execution along with its
> argument evaluation in Lua? I.e. like it is done in C by defining NDEBUG?
>
> Could it be done with the parser ignoring "assert" calls and subsequently
> not producing any bytecode for it?
>
> Or maybe there are some other approaches, which I missed?
>
> Thank you :)
>
> Sincerely,
> Nick

"assert" isn't a keyword in lua so it isn't treated any differently to any 
other function.

It could be done via metalua or modifying lua's source etc, but at that 
point you should really make assert a reserved word as redefining assert (ie 
to change the error handling) would no longer be possible.

- Alex