>>>>>PS: Did you try use "=>" with MS SQL or Oracle?
>>>>Nope. Does it work?
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>>>Doesn't work...
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>>I wonder why VFP allows it? I've never seen it before in any other language (that I can recall). Even Visual FreePro doesn't support it, and I've added many new features to it. :-)
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>I suppose they wanted to make it easy on the developer to allow both, but I find it very annoying. Very often I copy queries to SQL and then get an error because I got used to write it the wrong way. In my opinion it would be better to be more restricted.

My sense is that a lot of things that VFP provides that seem odd are because it started out as an interactive tool rather than a programming language. For example, if you have a table open and enter a number in the Command Window, it goes to that record, as if you'd use the GOTO command.

Tamar