Walter,

Completely agreed with you about run-time. However, in design/development time OFF setting is better by the same reason as ON is better in run-time. Assuming that VFP is primarily development tool, it's safely enough to have OFF as default.

>Edward,
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>>Could it happen that if default will change to ON, you will forget to set it OFF?
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>I don't think many people would SET DELETE to OFF in their applications. Only in very rare cases I will explicitely set it to off. IMO, it makes no sence that if the vast majority off VFP developers use the ON setting, it default sets to off
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>>Just thinking, take it easy :-).
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>Do have a reputation that I eat everyone who disagrees ?? I certainly don't hope so :-) I know i have a certain resolute attitude, but i'm only trying to convince people.
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>walter,