>At the end of the day, these disimilarities between VFP and VB do nothing for
>the image of Foxpro. VPF definitely has advantages over VB in many areas, but
>small quirks like this only add weight to the argument over using VB instead of
>VFP.
>
>As more and more products adopt these accepted standards, VFP moves further and
>further into the background, and surely this can only do VFP harm ???

And ditto Nancy and Dave's message for me.

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BTW, do you think that Visual J++ should use the same syntax that VB does?
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