alt Hacker News> assert(x > 0 && "x was not greater than zero");
Shouldn't that be "||" rather than "&&"? We want the message only if the boolean expression is false.
> assert(x > 0 && "x was not greater than zero");
Shouldn't that be "||" rather than "&&"? We want the message only if the boolean expression is false.
No, because the string will be implicitly converted to `true` and `(a && true) == a` (for boolean `a`), so it will only be `false` if the assertion fails. Using || would always evaluate to `true`