If you install Thor, one of the tools that comes with it is called "Object and Collection Inspector".

https://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Thor&referringTitle=Home
http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Introducing%20the%20Object%20and%20Collection%20Inspector.pdf

>I noticed that the debugger did not support peeking into the collection at run time - I usually like to take a look the first time I run something to see if the data looks okay. So I had to write a bit of temp code to iterate through the collection throwing each item into an object so I could take a peek. But overall, I like the concept.
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>Albert
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>>>Hi Thierry,
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>>>Got it all working. Thanks for pointing me to the collections object. I see using this a whole lot more in the future.
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>>>Albert
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>>Hi Albert,
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>>Thanks for the feedback!
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>>Another good news if ever you wish to use FoxInCloud some day: FoxInCloud supports modal forms returning collections. Though I share your preference for isolated, private datasession, FoxInCloud also supports forms working in other form's datasession and/or global datasession.
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>>Collections (aka 'associative arrays', enumerable, etc., etc.) are very common in 'modern' languages like php or JavaScript and, like you, I tend to like them more and more, except at debug time with VFP because you can't see anything in the 'locals' window.
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>>Otherwise, Collections allow you to encapsulate data and related custom methods in a single place.
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>>I plan to create a collection wrapper around an array to emulate the JavaScript methods .join(), .map(), .detect(), etc.