>>>Besides, I've just realised, you all talk of Intellisense obviating the need for define constants, and I said "what about reading the printed code?". Well, Intellisense DOES help out when typing (tho I find it a PITA sometimes when the bubble obscures what I'm typing) but, once the code is written, in VFP 7 at any road, it doesn't come back again with mouse hover of click when you're READING the code.
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>>It does, in VFP9, in the debugger.
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>So it does in VFP 7. But one doesn't always read code in the debugger, whilst the prog is running. However, having sid that, in VFP7 it tooltips up values of variables and table fields but not constants, I think. Maybe in 9 it does them too?

That's what I said. Though the format is sort of different - it lists the whole expression where a constant is involved. Readable all the same, just differently formatted.