I agree. I normally would not use it except I'm working on a situation where I need to send a series of commands from outside VFP and it would come in handy if I could do it.

>That's because other languages use an 'end-of-line' marker, like a ';','}', etc, and VFP does not.
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>I've always found code like that more difficult to read and support
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>>This is probably a dumb question but . . . in VFP is there a way to chain multiple commands on a single line? Something like:
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>>x=4|y=6|x=14
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>>I've never seen this form but several other languages allow it.