--[[ various intuitive assertions that - avoid garbage generation upon success, - build nice formatted error messages - post one level above the call site by default - return their first argument so they can be used inline default call is builtin global assert can call nop() to dummy out everything for "release mode" (if you're worried about that sort of thing) ]] local _assert = assert --proxy calls to global assert local assert = setmetatable({}, { __call = function(self, ...) return _assert(...) end, }) local function _extra(msg) if not msg then return "" end return "\n\n\t(note: " .. msg .. ")" end --assert a value is not nil --return the value, so this can be chained function assert:some(v, msg, stack_level) if v == nil then error(("assertion failed: value is nil %s"):format( _extra(msg) ), 2 + (stack_level or 0)) end return v end --assert two values are equal function assert:equal(a, b, msg, stack_level) if a ~= b then error(("assertion failed: %s is not equal to %s %s"):format( tostring(a), tostring(b), _extra(msg) ), 2 + (stack_level or 0)) end return a end --assert two values are not equal function assert:not_equal(a, b, msg, stack_level) if a == b then error(("assertion failed: values are equal %s"):format( _extra(msg) ), 2 + (stack_level or 0)) end return a end --assert a value is of a certain type function assert:type(a, t, msg, stack_level) if type(a) ~= t then error(("assertion failed: %s (%s) not of type %s %s"):format( tostring(a), type(a), tostring(t), _extra(msg) ), 2 + (stack_level or 0)) end return a end --assert a value is nil or a certain type. -- useful for optional parameters. function assert:type_or_nil(a, t, msg, stack_level) if a ~= nil then assert:type(a, t, msg, stack_level + 1) end return a end --replace everything in assert with nop functions that just return their second argument, for near-zero overhead on release function assert:nop() local nop = function(_, a) return a end setmetatable(self, { __call = nop, }) for k, v in pairs(self) do self[k] = nop end end return assert