FWIW I prefer Local to Private because you don't have to worry about name conflicts in called methods. I screw up enough things on my own without scattering land mines around.

>Why redefine private scope to local ?
>Param missing totally (see above, granting that LPara is cleaner) ?
>TPublic: Interesting - but not sure if something along a modul concept addition (see Python imports vs. JS ugliness) might not be more helpful to programmers, even if multicore CPU will need more threads in the future
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>IIRC currency is in vfp an 8byte Int only interpreted as "N,x,4" similar ? Your "64-bit floating point field represented as a currency (legacy)" reads wrong
>I am partial to tinyInt [0..2**8-1] and SmallInt[0..2**16-1] as field types without casting c(1), C(2) types, complementing your u8 and u16
>Have not made my mind up on UTC timestamps
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>from dot functions [is]accessed and [is]changed something I have sometimes REALLY wanted in wierd debug situations and logging needs.
>But "shipping is a feature" and "just because it fills some orthogonal matrix" (my thought on many items in other links) is no reason to implement from start.
>Danger of bloating by adding features only seldom needed (unless runtime speed optimizations made possible by them)
>One thing missing from my POV: marking functions as "inline", eliminating vfp overhead for parameter passing - which might bite with some of you event ideas
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>>VXB++ (Visual FreePro's new Xbase language extension):
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>>Changes between Visual FoxPro and Visual FreePro in various components:
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>>Variable types supported (will be extended over time):
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