Stop reporting assert statements as branches #556
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#269
As Nicholas Venturo notes in #269: "assert shouldn't ever fail unless the code is buggy" and it should be impossible to write test cases for both branches.
I proposed making this an option a long time ago but there does not seem to be a reason to use
assert
outside Solidity's SMTChecker or similar. Treating these as a branches discourages their use.(See comments in 269)