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How do you tell if a property is an array (version 8)
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15/04/2009 09:29:17
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
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Thread ID:
01393713
Message ID:
01394948
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>>>All the more reason to have it, IMO. What do you think this means: GOMONTH(DATE() - DAY(DATE()) + 1, 1) - 1
>>>
>>>A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but having to decipher a formula stinks.
>>>
>>
>>It means last day of this month. What is there to decipher it? To decipher you need something like a cipher, no? Maybe I don't see the philosophy here:) IMHO that X2... was something to decipher for a simple task that you could do inline.
>>Cetin
>
>I'm surprised you do not see the problem. GetLastDayOfMonth() needs no deciphering/decoding/thought. If you have never seen the above line, you cannot tell what it does as quickly as GetLastDayOfMonth().

I agree with you for this case.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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