>VFP parser should be more strict on this thinks, because this causes bloody practices, like using (and confusing) SELECT command and SELECT() function.
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>Recently I saw code like this:
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>SELECT("TABLE")
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>IF SELECT("TABLE")
> (code)
>ENDIF
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>So there are people that thinks that the function SELECT() can be used to select tables, when it really doesn't, but go explain that to hard-minded people.
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>Surely there are some more commands/functions that have this.
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>Sometimes developers make decisions in the believe that more combinations is better for the user, when it causes the contrary effect on good practices, readability of the code and understanding :-|

I agree with what you said! However, SELECT() returns a numeric indicating the workarea number of the specified alias. It doesn't return a T/F.