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30/01/2019 01:55:16
 
 
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29/01/2019 08:53:13
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01665734
Message ID:
01665817
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>>>>>>PS: Did you try use "=>" with MS SQL or Oracle?
>>>>>Nope. Does it work?
>>>>
>>>>Doesn't work...
>>>
>>>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. :-)
>>
>>
>>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.
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>Tamar

That explains a lot of these features. I guess the only way to have this changed, if it would ever have been an issue, it a SET STRICT setting in VFP, similar as the change when grouping in queries was enforced.
Christian Isberner
Software Consultant
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