isocpp / isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines

Should Expects be required to abort?

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The guidelines say here that GSL Expects always aborts on failure.
http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#SS-assertions

However, Microsoft's GSL implementation has a mode that can alternatively throw on failure. see here microsoft/GSL#775 which prevents making some functions unconditionally noexcept.

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