>[i was PREVENTED from putting the title text of this message in UPPER CASE!]
>Hi,
>
>I'm taking over some code where the following occurs:

>PRIVATE Variable
>...
>
>PROCEDURE x
>
>LPARAMETER Variable
>
...
>.
>Variable = ...
>RETURN

>I'm pretty SURE that the LPARAMETER causes any reference to Variable within Procedure x to be the local variable, but i wanted to check here...

Yes, you're correct.