>>>... depends on your defintion of string delimiter, I guess ... whether those compiler substitutions are evaluated before or after the string delimiters.
>>>
>>
>>Sorry I dont'understand you. I don't have a definition of string delimiter myself. I was talking about VFP's string delimiters. Why should it ever be different in evaluation depending on the delimiter used? Do you know somewhere that weirdness in behavior documented?
>
>It is doc'ed somewhere, and I found that behaviour more of a feature than a bug,
>as it enabled using the constants to string together long object paths to be Eval()ed.
>
>On other occasions it might not have been wished for. Best of both worlds and keeping the header files DRY.
>
>regards
>
>thomas

I don't understand. Where is it documented? You found it as a feature and I found that as a bug:)

"as it enabled using the constants to string together long object paths to be Eval()ed."
(I don't understand that sentence).

Cetin