How VFP is suppose to know that it's a comment?

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>h=sqlstringconnect("your connect string here")
>?sqlexec(h, "-- is this a proper comment?", "none")
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>You get a nice "SQL parameter is missing." error for this.
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>Why? Because there's a question mark in the SQL command being sent, and VFP parses it, looking for parameters. Well, the parser isn't too smart - if it was, it would be writing SQL for us, right? - so it finds a question mark followed by nothing that would serve as a variable name, a-ha! Error.
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>Just in case someone else bangs into this particular corner of the wall, may they escape without this ugly bump on the forehead.