Albert,

It should return the "property" value of the correct type for the defined public interface of the class. So you can return values that are actually a different type or value that what the property actually holds in memory.

>I don't have access (no pun intended) to one of my VFP mega-books at my client's site and I need a reminder on _access and _assign. Specifically, for _access, what is the rule for what it is to return to the calling program? I think I had trouble with this before and just need a brush-up on it.