>>>
>>>>Up to this date, no one developer could show me a piece of demo code that using mdot could make any harm.
>>>
>>>Sometime must be the first time... here it goes
>>>
>>>
>>>CREATE CURSOR Test (Dummy I)
>>>INSERT INTO Test VALUES (1)
>>>INSERT INTO Test VALUES (2)
>>>
>>>m = "Z"
>>>m.ap = "MESSAGEBOX('This would not hurt my table would it?')"
>>>
>>>&m.ap
>>>
>>>BROWSE NORMAL
>>>
>>>
>>
>>In fact, this behaves exactly as documented. The table/cursor is not hurt, it is zapped, a completely acceptable operation. The cursor is not left nonoperational, as the instruction that follows the macro proves.
>
>It does, but that does not make it less confusing.
It is a mark of high technology and technical skills that we are able to shoot ourselves in the foot in such an imaginative and elegant way.