>>>What about those that say that OO is a tool just as everything else. It is to be used, but it is not an End-all, Be-all.
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>>This is inherently true. OOP is methodology. Granted it is a very popular and rock solid one.
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>Agreed. Also, the mere fact that the product (VFP in this case) uses built-in OO-methodology forces developers to adopt it as default, just to avoid painful collisions.

I've been following this thread because I'm doing more and more VFP but still supporting older FPD/FPW2.x systems and old habits are hard to break. I still use push/pop functions to open/close DBC tables in the init/unload events as nec. I have no experience letting a form's dataenvironment open an close tables for me but I would like to use the tools that are available. Does the DE have any pitfalls?