En-/disabling assertions

Seems you can only set the assertions at compile time with
–Xdisable-assertions
(http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/tools/scalac.html)

I tried changing something with
ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader.setDefaultAssertionStatus(true) but it does
not seem to have any influence (2.7.2-final)

Heiko Seeberger-4 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Programming in Scala (great book) tells, that assertions can be turned
> on and off using JVM options -ea and -da. But that does not seem to
> work.
>
> Looking at the implementation of Predef.assert() I do not see how
> Scala's assertions should be related to Java's assertions which can be
> controlled with the above flags.
>
> Did I miss something? Or is there another way to en-/disable
> assertions in Scala?
>
> Heiko
>
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