Pete- Sunday, February 16, 2014, 9:11:23 AM, you wrote:
> All valid points. I'm just not seeing any big advantages over using if/then > constructs, but I can see that being a personal preference. Well, one advantage of assert is that the parameters pinpoint exactly where the error occurred, making your debugging and logging tasks easier. You don't need a switch statement to see what type of problem and where it happened, the engine hands that to you, and you can log it, display it in an answer dialog, whatever you want. You can ship code with assert commands in place, as they should be harmless and only come into play if something fails. Then when you change code your tests will tell you if something's going to break. You also have an extra bug reporting mechanism on the client end of things: if something happens to break your code even though it passed your dev tests, you can pop up the same log information and the your users can relay that back to you. Granted you could do all this without an assert command in the engine, and we've done that for years, but this makes things easier, cleaner, and helps the engine team ensure that they can catch bugs before they release builds to us. I use asserts all the time in my real-world coding, and I welcome their introduction to the LC world. That said, I think the assert command is still in its infancy, as it won't catch things like assert 1 / 0 -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
