Assert Considered Helpful

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Last Advent of Code I took to putting assert statements for every invariant in my code. Most of my time was spent debugging, not the first write or running code. Adding so many asserts provided a number of benefits: Assert statements are a compact form of documenting invariants, both expected and produced, making code easier to reason about. Each assert serves as a concise unit test with exactly…

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