Hmmm, although I knew about SCATTER NAME I've never used it before. You bring up some good ideas I will take a look at. FYI, this thing all started while I was trying to create a VFP COM middle-tier BO that can be accessed from non-VFP front-end.

>He doesn't need to do anything with "adding custom methods programmatically" - he may just have a generic property called record=.null., and then use

scatter name this.record

, and have a generic GetValue and SetValue methods, which would return .null. for nonexistent fields, and .f. for writes into nonexistent fields.
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>Furthermore, he may have an array of this.records[n], so the object may keep the whole grid (but then why was the table buffering invented at all?).