title: Any way to use Hamcrest matchers in production code?
body: <p>I'd like to use <strong>hamcrest</strong> as sugar framework to use in <code>if</code> statements, not in the unit tests with asserts, but in raw production code. </p>
  
  <p>Something like</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ( isNotEmpty(name) ) return //....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ( isEqual(name, "John")) return //...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Just like <code>AssertThat</code> but without throwing errors, just returning boolean.
  Is it possible? </p>