On Wed Nov 3 10:25 , Dan Covill <dcovill .at. san D.OT rr.com> sent:=0D
>Why is this a bug? (Not to mention why is it "serious"!) Why should the =
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>precedence rule for parameter names (which are, after all, variables, be =
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>different from those for any other variable?=0D
>What would your co-worker have it do instead?=0D
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>Yes, it's a gotcha. But there are lots of others, as there are with any =
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>language. We might try finding out why it works the way it does before we=
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>start hurling the 'b' word around.=0D
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Right. Sounds like your coworker has some flaws in his conventions perhaps=
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lending to the possibility of this kind of issue. What's his response if y=
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"well, that wouldn't happen in VB?" The reason I ask is that many have som=
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to grind with VFP for a non-valid reason, and many times it's because they =
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it wrong. Sure, VFP's not very strict and that let's an idiot saw his fing=
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off (instead of good safeguards) but hey, don't use the tool if you don't k=
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what you're doing. (Then again, perhaps that's a valid reason!?!)=0D
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--Michael=0D
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