Because of the Relational Database Orientation of VFP, and lack for native object serialization support ( xml , json ) complex objects were out of the VFP conversation, even rarely you see "scatter name". Last year I shared nfXmlRead/create & nfJsonRead/Create, today I want to share "_" a very simple, small , but powerful function* that allows you to model / modify complex objects using a cleaner, effortless and readable syntax .

Forget about "addproperty" if you need to add more than 1 property to an object, Just put _.prg in your path and start using it like below: ( attached picture shows result )

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public oMyPc && check later on your debugger

oMyPc = Createobject('empty')

With _( oMyPc )  && simply pass object you want to modify, any referenced property will be added to passed object if does not exist:

	.madeBy = 'Marco Plaza, 2018 - nfTools'
	.manufacturer = 'custom'
	.basePrice = 699
	.caseType  = 'ATX'
	.modelName = 'Ryzen Performance Plus'

	With _( .cpu )   && cpu will be a new object for oMyPc - check we pass ".cpu"  ( dot cpu ) because it's inside with - endwith 
		.processorcount = 6
		.brand = 'AMD'
		.model = 'Ryzen 7'
		.clockspeed = 4.3
		.processorCount = 8
	Endwith

	With _(.motherboard)

		.manufacturer = 'Asus'
		.model = 'Prime B350-Plus AMD'
		.formfactor = 'ATX'

		With _(.slots)
			.Memory = 4
			.m2 = 1
			.pcie = 4
		Endwith

		With _(.storage,'primaryDisk')  && here we create ".storage" and ".storage.primaryDisk"  in a single pass
			.manufacturer = 'Samsung'
			.model = '960 evo Series'
			.Type = 'internal'
			.connectivity = 'PCIe NVMe M.2'
			.capacity = '250gb'
		Endwith

		With _(.storage,'backupDisk')
			.manufacturer = 'Seagate'
			.model = 'Barracuda ST3000DM008'
			.Type = 'Internal'
			.formfactor = 3.5
			.capacity = '3tb'
			.connectivity = 'Sata 6.0'
			.rotationspeed = 7200
		Endwith

	Endwith

Endwith