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Re: Assertion !is_empty() failed - yet again


From: Aaron Hill
Subject: Re: Assertion !is_empty() failed - yet again
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:44 -0700
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On 2019-10-30 2:05 am, Rutger Hofman wrote:
Sincere request: can this assert please be removed? Its validity appears
debatable, and it is a showstopper for me!

If we agree that an empty interval does not have a well-defined center, then the assertion is quite valid.

But the problematic intervals in question were never intended to ever be empty, yet their left and right bounds are computed in such a way to form degenerate, "inside-out" intervals that are treated as empty. The assertion properly is pointing out this flaw in computation. As such, we should not be removing the assertion, because rather we should ensure that computations never invert the bounds of an interval.

That said, I feel the hard-fail approach of an assertion is too strong, and what we need is to simply emit a warning that the function will be returning the midpoint of the interval's bounds despite the interval appearing to be invalid (read: empty).


-- Aaron Hill



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