This ability has been around along time, and can come in handing at times.

Check out in your FoxPro Help file under "= Command".

>>Hi Viv,
>>
>>>Anyone noticed that the following doesn't error:
>>

>>>=MESSAGEBOX("Hello"),0,"Fred"
>>

>>
>>Interesting... Here also I don't get error. Work fine. (VFP 8/SP1)
>>VFP evaluate all as expressions. Try:
>>

>>? MESSAGEBOX("Hello"),0,"Fred"
>>* And
>>? MESSAGEBOX("Hello"), GETFILE()
>>

>>If you try:
>>

>>MESSAGEBOX("Hello"),0,"Fred"
>>

>>You get a error.
>
>This explain the matter:
>

>=MESSAGEBOX("Hello"),0,"Fred"
>