>But changing such a central part plus all the planned additions: perhaps starting from a clean slate
>with a new language might be cleaner.
>Getting users to adopt a totally new language: oodles more difficult, so perhaps less changes and
>getting a running version while a few reamining vfp devs still want one might be more important,
>which was the background for my "shipping is a feature" ;-)


Do people use PRIVATE? I've never used it in my entire VFP career. I don't mind adding support in there if it's required. But if only a few people use it, there are better ways to code.

I see no purpose or benefit to keeping it. Perhaps you can explain it to me.