Re: It's That Time Again! The 2002 RPG Enhancement Poll

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Seth.D.Shields=zpSsaXpf3Hw@public.gmane.org wrote:
>
> You say that you want to know what people want most but if nobody picked an 
>$80 item, does that mean nobody wanted that or that it
> was just too darn expensive?  I think everyone on this list, as 
>programmers,understand need to weight these items according to the
> degree of difficulty in implementing them.  I just think if you really want 
>know what we want most, it would make more since to have
> us rank the items and you apply your weighting those results.
>

If nobody picks an $80 item, it probably means it was too expensive.

These are the items that are $50 and over:
[ ]   8  $50  Allow dynamic resizing of arrays and multi-occurrence DS.
[ ]  12  $50  Multiple-dimension arrays (expressions only).
[ ]  23  $80  Allow expressions as parameters to keywords.
[ ]  24  $80  Full null field support.
[ ]  25  $80  Procedure name overloading based on parm types.

I don't think we could assume that nobody wanted any of these items.

We see these as very desirable items, and we know that most RPG
programmers also see these as desirable.  What we want to know is if
there is anyone who wants these items so much that they are willing to
forgo the other things on the list.  I don't think we can find this out
by allowing you to prioritize because prioritizing lets you off too
easily.  We need you to agonize over this decision.  If you want say
full null value support, choose it realizing that you won't get much
else, and without the comfort of having told us what else you would
really like.