Mike,

>I'm not sure I follow. You have more C experience than I do but in my dim grasp scope is very much like FoxPro's -- several options, with local scope being only the default.

In C every variable has to be declared explicitly to define it's type. 99% of the time this happens inside the function/method. That makes the variable scope local ie only the function/method can see the variable. Variables declared outside a function are global.

In Xbase unless it's declared LOCAL it's visible everywhere downstream in the calling stack. It's both a blessing and a curse. *g*