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>>>I believe this would be considered a BUG.
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>>Not a but. LEFT is a reserved word. The general feeling is that you should avoid anything as a procedure name, field, or variable that shows up in blue in the VFP 5.0 editor.
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>I think I'd still consider this a BUG. Doesn't FP know what its reserved words are? Yes, you are correct is saying I shouldn't have used a field named *LEFT*, but ...
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>I don't think that VFP does as good a job as it could in checking for errors before closing tables, snippets, etc.
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>For instance if a prg contains
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> IF .T. && or
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> do while .T.
> messagebox('hi mom',4,"that's all")
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> return
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>you don't get any errors, until you run the prg. There are other tools which do a better job in *checking* snippets, tables, etc. before a problem is found much later, as was the case with my table including a field named *left*.
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>FWIW, Kim

I just tried your code in both FPW 2.6 and VFP 5.0 and both caught the errors.