On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 15:52:06 Timothee Cour wrote:
> in std.utf shouldn't we throw UTFException instead of assert(0) in stride,
> etc ?

std.utf only uses assert(0) when that code should be unreachable. It's used to
catch bugs in the implementation, not in a function's input. If anything in
std.utf ever hits an assert(0), it's a bug. A UTFException _is_ thrown when a
std.utf function encounters invalid Unicode. It's certainly possible that
there's a bug involving assert(0) in std.utf, but there shouldn't be any case
in all of Phobos where an assert(0) would actually be hit.

- Jonathan M Davis