mid-nineties is more like it ;-)
Think I was burned having a table with a txt memo field...

>ISTR seeing some 3rd party framework code that isn't m-dotted.
>To be fair, FFC and some frameworks have roots very early this century, when mdot was not widely regarded as a part of best practices.
>
>>Yupp. IIRC that includes some classes of FFC...
>>
>>>Exactly. Any VFP code that is not m-dotted is not tool-grade.
>>>
>>>>VFP tools are run in unpredictable environment. There is no way to even guess what tables can be open at the time or what variables are already exists. No naming convention can deal with that
>>>>
>>>>>Can't remember which tool it was, but I found a bug in some widely-used VFP community tool because of an m. issue.
>>>>>