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Field naming conventions
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19/02/2008 14:09:13
 
 
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19/02/2008 08:46:38
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01293572
Message ID:
01293906
Views:
18
>>>>You wouldn't actually call a field Name, would you?
>>>
>>>How about field name 'Field' ? :0)
>>
>>;-)
>>
>>Years ago I subcontracted on an application where purchase orders were stored in a table called ORDER. We ran into lots of issues in testing ;-)
>
>That pi**es me off outright ...
>When I see things named like reserved words and thus turning blue in my code window, I normally turn red :0)

When I've seen it, often it's been because the table pre-dates the reserved word. ORDER is a good example. I think it came into the language in FoxPro 2, so before that it was a perfectly good name.

Tamar
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