>I use default DS only, and I have no problems with record pointer coordinations. My forms are not dependent on pointer moving, i.e. they are completely unbound from data.
>Basically, private DS is based itself on USE ... AGAIN, and it looks pretty much FOX2x too. Yes, it's convenient, because it's available, but I would not consider it as important OO feature.

Ed,

I have to disagree. I find that private data sessions are one of the major improvements in VFP over FP 2.x. I wrote the state saving and restoring code in 2.x to allow multiple instances of the same form and believe me setting the data session to private is a great improvement.

Also, if one chooses not to use private data sessions and there are two forms open and buffering is set to row, then table updates can occur totally out of the control of one form when the other moves a record pointer.

In fact, the only time I see a default data session having any value is when I have a child form that must manipulate its parent's data directly.