>>Seems like an ill-designed feature to me.
>Actually no, it's cute, and powerful, once you get used to it. Yeah...I know..we're macho programmers...we love this kind of stuff
Ever patch a running monitor?
Write self-modifying code? (actually, that's pretty much what VFP macro substituion is since the macros are interpreted at run time)
Don't you feel just a little cheated not having a bonafide "GOTO" statement in VFP (I'm not talking about table navigation...I'm talking about program execution control) ... what could be cuter? or more powerful?
;-)
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