>>>Hi Sergey
>>>
>>>(sheepish grin)
>>>
>>>You're right - I've been bitten by the comments after problem again. I excised the comments for the post for brevity.
>>>
>>>Man, you're good! even finding errors when the example's not complete! :-)
>>>
>>>Thanks again
>>>
>>
>>This is a VFP bug, the ";" is within the comment and cannot join two lines.
>
>It's not a bug.

Of course,
I know it that VFP works so by design,
and it is also comfort (enough a * to comment a multiline command),
but from the formal point of view it is an error.