From the "C++ design committee was so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think whether they should" department.
Asserts:
1. You don't like the being conditional on NDEBUG ot aborting the program - roll out your own. Will still be a one-liner.
2. You want them act as documentation of pre-conditions in headers - just add a comment there.
The only somewhat reasonable development here are the post conditions for functions with multiple returns, but post/s are dramatically less common than pre/s, so their utility is also debatable.
From the "C++ design committee was so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think whether they should" department.
Asserts:
1. You don't like the being conditional on NDEBUG ot aborting the program - roll out your own. Will still be a one-liner.
2. You want them act as documentation of pre-conditions in headers - just add a comment there.
The only somewhat reasonable development here are the post conditions for functions with multiple returns, but post/s are dramatically less common than pre/s, so their utility is also debatable.