That is true. In practice a failed assertion can be quite benign. It's
just that there is no guarantee of that. Failed assertions can also be
quite terrible. Maybe brain damage would have been a better analogy :)
Some brain damage is bad and some isn't so bad. If the brain damage
isn't so bad, there might be a chance to recover more gracefully.
On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 11:11 PM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote:
That's not true. A failed assertion can happen because of anything
where the RS programmers thought that this should not happen. That
does not always mean that the app is hosed. In fact, it's even
possible that the assertion is in error and that everything is
fine.
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