>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Formal point of view??????????
>>>
>>>To simplify (this is not set for discussing of grammars and formal languages),
>>>do me an I list of languages where the character that links
>>>more executable lines it also links more comment lines:
>>>

>>>VFP
>>>****add here***
>>VB6
>>>

>
>Hi Jim,
>I have been too much magnanimous:)
>
>Replay:
>To simplify (this is not set for discussing of grammars and formal languages),
>do me an I list of non dead languages where the character that links
>more executable lines it also links more comment lines:
>

>VFP
>****add here***
>

C

/* comments here
are continued until
the comment
is terminated */

But that may be that there is no line continuation in C at all.