assert

[rani bedi]

I recently saw a program using the assert keyword. Hopefully it looked to me as a statement. Can anyone comment.
assert index > 0 : baseValue ;

[Cindy Glass]

This is not available in java. Here is an article discussing how you could CHOOSE to implement it if you want to:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/TechTips/1998/tt0217.html#tip1

[Julia Reynolds]

I read somewhere that we will have assert in JDK 1.4.
Julia

[Mapraputa Is]

Originally posted by Julia Reynolds:
I read somewhere that we will have assert in JDK 1.4.
Julia

Perhaps here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/lang/assert.html