>>I have heard that argument, but, interestingly, no one who made it ever gave me a situation where it was true. The only time I have found it helpful to use a proc is when the routine is simply an extension of the language.
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>Jim,
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>What do you mean when you say, * an extension of the language? *
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Renoir,

I mean a fucntion that is non-specific and that I would someday think may be added to the VFP language. For example; I often need to calculate the last or first day of a month. I have UDF's for those things. It just didn't make sense to me to create a dateManipulation class to hold those operations. They both simply take a date as an argument and return a single number as a result.