Re: behaviour of assert on non-string errors

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014/1/18 Peng Zhicheng <pengzhicheng1986@gmail.com>:

> IMHO, `assert' and `error' have quite different semantics and use cases.

> So, it is quite reasonable for me that `assert' only accept a string
> message, since it is to give the (interactive session) user some clue
> about what went wrong, instead of to give `pcall' the `error object' to
> examine (and maybe to retry or recover) in a programamtic way,
> in which case `error' should be used.

+1