>Bruce,
>I'd ROFL, except I can imagine you were kicking yourself across the office. ASSERTS don't affect compiled code, so you can use them with impunity. Leaving them in only annoys you when they're called unnecessarily.
It was a lesson well-learned :) No more SET STEP ON...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.