RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

[Björnke von Gierke]

Alright, thanks everyone for explaining this. I see now that assert does something that existing capabilities didn't do: Make your own errors up.

I still think that adding an assert command (of all things) is a completely wrong way to do that tho. What i'd want is this to use existing capabilities, instead of sidestepping how things work right now. Maybe a control structure would be a lot more in touch with the existing ways?

Another approach could be something similar to exit (exit to error?), coupled with an operator or a function. I think a command is extremely weird, why would a random command exit the handler? it's so weird :(

In addition I'd use it directly with the existing (if weirdly named) errorDialog message (assertError synonym?). In fact that one already does everything the newfangled assert does (including the global that Richard asked for, if I read "the lockErrorDialogs" correctly), the only thing it doesn't do, is to allow the user to issue custom errors that would trigger the function, but of course that can be added. 

So my suggestion would be to update errorDialog, maybe make a synonym for people used to other languages. And then add an assert control structure (or even just modify try to be able to use it in that way).


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