What happened to std::assert

Question

This answer and it\'s multitude of duplicates indicate that I should be using #include for the C headers that I pull from in C++ code, and that I sho

Answer 1

assert is a macro, not a function. Hence, it needs to be used with plain old assert(condition).

Here's a supporting link: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/assert.

Answer 2

assert is a macro, thus it isn't possible to restrict it to a namespace.