Thank you.

>The 'local' refers to *scoping* of the variables that are passed into the function called not the 'By Value or By Reference' status. Those are two completely unrelated concepts.
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>By default FoxPro uses PRIVATE variable scope and PARAMETERS uses Private scope as well. LPARAMETERS basically just makes the parameters LOCAL and scope to the function.
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>So think of PARAMETERS and LPARAMETERS as the difference between:
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>PRIVATE Parm1, Parm2
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>LOCAL Parm1, Parm2
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>If you recall PRIVATE scope is hierarchical - visible down from where a variable is declared all the way into child functions/methods called. LOCAL scope is local to the function the variable is declared at. So LPARAMETERS limits the scope of the parameters - where they are visible - to the function they are declared in.
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>It has nothing to do with passing by value or by reference.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi,
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>>Specifically I mean, as far as the title, what is the purpose of the "L" in LPARAMETERS. I understand it means "local" but the following example shows that it is not quite local:
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>>LOCAL lVar1, lVar2
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>>STORE 1 TO  lVar1, lVar2
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>>=TestFunct( lVar1, @lVar2 )
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>>? lVar1, lVar2
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>>FUNCTION TestFunct
>>LPARAMETERS lVar1, lVar2
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>>lVar2 = 122
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>>RETURN
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>>Or does it mean that the "@" overrides the L in LPARAMETERS?