<p><a href="https://github.com/vfaronov" class="user-mention">@vfaronov</a> The use case was regarding your comment:</p>
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<p>Do you think it’s safe to assume that navqueue_go_back will never be exposed in the plugin API, for example?</p>
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<p>With an assertion, if it gets added to the plugin API and we forget to update the code (<a href="https://github.com/kugel-" class="user-mention">@kugel-</a> said "No, but things can be fixed at that point."), it will raise the assertion and make it easier for core/plugin devs to debug (using GDB), it will bail right where the precondition is violated rather than causing a segmentation fault (or worse, not causing one) later on in the code after the programming error.</p>

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