scummvm/scummvm — comment on commit 6c9ad26f1deff4cca56c462f74374c8ff100ac76
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By tramboi:

Funny coincidence, we just had a game-breaking bug today in our final build of the released beta because some programmer called a function in an assert that did a side-effect to a parameter through a reference :)
Much harder to qa and debug than somebody passing a NULL pointer in my opinion.