Sorry.
From the VFP Help:
"Using the LPARAMETERS statement or enclosing the parameter list in parentheses defines the parameters with local scope for the procedure. You can also use the PARAMETERS keyword instead of LPARAMETERS to accept privately scoped parameters."I think that there's no other way...
Emerson Santon Reed
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