> Naomi told me that C++/C# uses this syntax too.
> Now It's clear that this idea comes from the CLIPPER time because
> I remember, now, that the the latest versions of CLIPPER brought many
> C heritage.

Better to say, this idea came to Clipper from C, as all best C principles and techniques.
Youe example with filling an array - a hard job for a programmer. And after all, the second
hard job begins, when you must process array data. Refresh in your memory Clipper
functions for array treatment.