>>>>>>
>>>>>>OK,
>>>>>>the point here is "every time I code".
>>>>>>What happens if someone else do the code?
>>>>>>You can't be always sure that you are in the right area.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Check this:
>>>>>>https://www.foxite.com/archives/0000093906.htm
>>>>>>This is post from late Marcia Akins.
>>>>>
>>>>>I know your point, what's more, I currently am in a foxpro project, which is about maintaining an old system where the code looks like spaghetti. I'm taking my precautions.
>>>>
>>>>The only precaution needed is to use IN clause. The prefacing of alias on every field in the replace command does not do what too many think it does.
>>>
>>>In FoxPro 2.X, there is no IN clause for REPLACE command
>>
>>In the thread header it says VFP9SP2... so.
>
>I was talking about taking precautions in my current FoxPro project. Mike told me that the only precaution I need is to use the IN clause, so I made him remind that my project is FoxPro not Visual FoxPro.

One cannot be reminded of something never explained in the first place. The IN clause was added to later versions of Fox because the alias preface was not doing what people think it does.