>>Does classical OOP thinking address this distinction and are 'THISFORM' and 'THIS' VFP's primary means of addressing the issue, or am I just an Old Procedural Programming Dinosaur (OPPD for you AN's...acronym nuts) who's still having trouble seeing beyond the bounds of his native worldview?
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>I'm not sure if there's a pattern name for this, but I use it a lot. For

I believe we are discussing the Chain of Responsibility pattern, where by an object passes messages up a certain chain until it is handled. Of course, the chain can be containership, object hierarcy, or some other also.

Read all about it in your Patterns bible.

BOb