>>>- Using the full function/command name rather than the first four letters
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>>I hate thos 4 lett comm and func name rath than the full spel of the name. Who in the worl thou that woul be a smar thin to do?
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>It was, back in the days before intellisense and when diskspace was scarce and... well, the murky DOS past. It still helps in some cases.
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>But then, as VFP language got richer, it eventually hit the wall. How many usable function names beginning with GET, or array functions with the mandatory A can you create and yet have people remember them? Type getf( and see whether it's getfile() or getfont() that will come up.
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>OTOH, the overreliance on Intellisense has saddled us with the getword* pair where you must type eight characters before it knows the remaining two or four.
Visual Studio's intellisense will help you out before that. Just saying <g>.
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