Well It is called REALbasic not REALC++ Asserts are an excellent idea, unfortunately we have been there on this ride before with RS. From previous discussions with certain employees at RS, they view assertions with a different philosophy than does the normal world (for example the C world). So I doubt that you will ever get them or they will be in a form that makes them useless if we do get them. I absolutely hope I am wrong on this matter, but sometimes it is really like pulling teeth when they have a certain philosophy of doing things. Some time has passed since our last little go around on asserts, so maybe things have changed.
My biggest gripe with RB is that RS picks their feature sets for each release that are basically fluff when compared to the nuts and bolts feature that are left undone. I am talking about features have far more bang for the buck to make us more proficient as developers. For example, libraries (both source code and precompiled libraries). Libraries would revolutionize how we work with RB. How many releases have gone by since they converted over to the new IDE and what have we gotten instead in terms of new features? With all due respect to RS, I hardly use many of their language enhancements they have come out with for the last couple of years. It is not because of a lack of understanding or lack of experience as a developer, but they really don't affect the bulk of my programming. What I mean to say is that they are features that only affect us no the fringe. There are a lot of features out there that fall into the nuts and bolts category and they are not being addressed. Based on results, something is not right in how they are choosing what features to work on for the long term. Now that they have universal binaries out of the way, it will become apparent how well they are choosing what features to implement. It is time to hold their feet to the fire for what features they choose to implement. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
