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

Hello Barbara,

You wrote:
>If nobody picks an $80 item, it probably means it was too expensive.

Or that nobody could determine a way to use it in their applications, or
they didn't understand the description, or they'd rather have you write 20
trivial additions to the language to provide free-form equivalents to
fixed op-codes, or ....

>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.

But I want them all !!  :-)  Not really, I do want three of them.  I can
accept the pricing on most of them but #23 seems extremely overpriced.

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

Good.  There are probably only a dozen programmers who would want most of
these enhancements but if we got them they would really improve the
flexibility of RPG IV.

>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.

But why did you make it hurt SOOOOO much!

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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