>>>FWIW: Lianja Education Edition is free to educational institutions: all they have to do is contact Lianja from their institutional email and ask. With it, kids can be creating programs that run on the web written in Python, Javascript, PHP, or VFPish.
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>>Can't you just rename the latter to Foxish or Foxese? VFPish kinda isn't sliding off the tongue.
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>>BTW, in the examples I see lots of macros. No name expressions?
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>re: VFPish -- it's more VFP than it is FP. It's even more VFP than Recital (which is its origin), as many VFP commands and functions have been added in. I would say "VFP" without the annoying "ish" except I don't want to mislead anyone: their favorite command or function might not be there yet. Barry has said that he will make it VFP-equivalent as items are brought to his attention and filed as either bugs or enhancement requests. But even then, there is much more than VFP in the language. Properly I guess I'd call it Lianja (a VFP-based derivative with many extensions), or VFPish+ <s>. It's the above thinking that led me to adopt VFPish. I suspect that in a couple of years I'll just call is Lianja.

I guessed the reasons would be technical. Mine were practical, the ease of pronunciation and the

>re: macros vs name expressions.
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>The answer is that name expressions do work in Lianja. I don't know if they were there when the examples were created

Right, I was more going through the examples than reading documentation... just like I did with every version of Fox (which I still call Fox).

>: Lianja has grown much more VFP-equivalent in the past year in response to developer feedback. A year ago that was the one big question I had: would Lianja be responsive to developer feedback, and to what degree. In fact, they have proven at least as responsive as Fox, even pre-MS.
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>At present, name expressions are not allowed in SQL SELECT statements. However, ThomasG made the case on the forum that this is not a security risk (but macros are, of course), and so that will likely be changed.

As long as ?var constructs are allowed in selects (another thing to check - haven't got that far yet - are they?), we don't really need name expressions in them.