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Use of macro substitution vs. string valued variables
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22/07/1999 16:17:20
 
 
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22/07/1999 15:48:42
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00244254
Message ID:
00244971
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>>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?

;-)
"The Iron Fish: The water is cold...but the fish don't mind"
...Jay Jenks, boyhood chum
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