>I just spent ... um ... a long time debugging a problem and found something I think the compiler should complain about, but it did not. There's a line of code in this app as follows:
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>lnHour = HOUR(DATETIME())--11
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>Note the two minus signs (--). I typed this in the command window at 12:45 and it returned 23. The expected value is 1. So, is -- a feature? or is that a bug?
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>Thanks

Mark,

The hour was 12, your code subtracted -11 from that number which is equivalent to adding 11 to 12 and the answer is 23. It is not a bug in VFP but it is a bug in the code you posted :-).