>>ASSERT is not good because it moves the focus on the assert's message.
>>A bad design :(
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>Just as good as recommending to people to use messagebox() to debug stuff... both will move focus off the current form and thus cause a bunch of events.

ASSERT is a good idea,
shame it was not very well made​​.
For example, the compiler does not discard this command,
but it is the executor at runtime that ignores it.

This is easily workarounded with a conditional compilation and includes some expression ...

VFPT unfortunately was closed, I would propose a some hundred issues not fixed to .