>The method you proposed is actually pretty commonplace (well, key parts of it anyway).

I think your explanation puts a nice trick in the original poster's bag.

Just installed SP3. Noticed in the docs that the COMPILE command can now be used in the Run-time version, so we can now (finally, after all these years) have an efficient way in our distributed apps to write code that writes code. Kind of sad, in a way: This capability renders obsolete some of the neatest tricks that I had in my bag.