RARRAY_AREF has been a macro for reasons. We might not be able to
change that for public APIs, but why not relax the situation internally
to make it an inline function.
Assertions in header files slows down an interpreter, so they should be
turned off by default (simple `make`). To enable them, define a macro
`RUBY_DEBUG=1` (e.g. `make cppflags=-DRUBY_DEBUG` or use `#define` at
the very beggining of the file. Note that even if `NDEBUG=1` is defined,
`RUBY_DEBUG=1` enables all assertions.
[Feature #16837]
related: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3120
`assert()` lines in MRI *.c is not disabled even if `RUBY_DEBUG=0` and
it can be disabled with `NDEBUG=1`. So please consider to use
`RUBY_ASSERT()` if you want to disable them when `RUBY_DEBUG=0`.
