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> From: Martin Rowe
>
> The downside is not being able to view/change the %BIF
> value directly when in debug.

AGH!  I can't believe this.  This is unacceptable.  I don't quite understand
when it was that it became acceptable practice to remove functionality when
moving to a new release, but this is just ridiculous.  If you're going to
recommend that we use a BIF, spend a few lousy hours of development time to
put support in the debugger.  The people who are going to actually write the
code (and hence the ones who will or will not embrace the new syntax) are
the ones who use the debugger.  Anything you add to the language that is NOT
supported in the debugger is, in my mind, not supported at all.

The fact that ISDB is gone is bad enough.  I'll live with STRDBG, since it's
at least cross-language capable.  But how many development hours would it
have taken to add BIF support to the Eval operation of the debugger.  The
information is available, it's simply a little extra parsing.  A couple of
hours, tops, one would think.

Ah well, I'm not going to bitch and moan today.  I'm busy trying to get my
stuff working.  I'll worry about BIF and his buddies a little later.

Joe



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