The collection has a default method, which returns an item. So instead of

?loCol.items("first")

using

?loCol("first")

works the same. Even better, if the returned item is an object, I can call its methods

?loCol("first").SomeMethodCall("with", "parameters")

or set its properties

loCol("first").SomeProperty="Some value"

First I thought I saw it somewhere but wasn't sure if it was a VFP collection or some other language. Then I just thought to try and see if it works - and it does.

The question for the collegium is whether this is using the collection as a fox object or via COM (i.e. is there the overhead), and what are the limitations.