>>Not quite a bug, but a peculiarity of foxpro:
>>if you set the index to seq_no, it first tries to find an index with the _name_ seq_no. If that does not exist it will evaluate seq_no. It will then try to set the index to the result of that expression, in this case the result seems to be 1, so it sets the index to 1
>>if seq_no evaluates to "k_memo" the index will be set to k_memo (if it exists)
>>So, if you use an index name, you better use order "seq_no", if you want is as an expression use (seq_no)
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>I still think it's a bug. If I want VFP to evaliate the name I would use a name expression.

It's called: backwards compatibility.
Even in fox 2.x it works this way, if they change it a LOT of code will stop working.