Assertions : have I gone nuts?

[KR Campbell]

Has my mental freezer been unplugged overnight? :

MyClass
{
    public void foo()
    {
        int result = -2;
 
        ... // blah blah
 
        assert result != -2;
    }
}

At the command prompt with version 1.4.2:

    javac -source 1.4 MyClass.java

Output: " As of release 1.4, assert is a keyword and may not be used as an identifier...."

Ken

[Rachel Swailes]

It might solve your problem to enable assertions on the command line. I found this info on

http://www.javaemerald.com/javamaster/assert.html

so maybe give it a try.

[KR Campbell]

Thanks for the reply Rachel, I think that only matters at runtime. I found my mistake. I somehow managed to get my assertion outside my method body. Compiler didn't like it. Mental powercut!

Regards,
Ken