Use Julia's inbounds mechanism for turning on and off validity checks? about intervalarithmetic.jl HOT 1 CLOSED

if haskey(ENV, "IA_VALID") == true
    const validity_check = true
else
    const validity_check = false
end

abstract type AbstractInterval{T} <: Real end

struct Interval{T<:Real} <: AbstractInterval{T}
    lo :: T
    hi :: T

    function Interval{T}(a::Real, b::Real) where T<:Real

        a = _normalisezero(a)
        b = _normalisezero(b)

        if validity_check

            if is_valid_interval(a, b)
                return new(a, b)

            else
                @warn "Invalid input, empty interval is returned"
                return new(T(Inf), T(-Inf))
            end

        end

        new(a, b)

    end
end