>Hi Ed and Craig,
>
>>Nope - by default, VFP creates variables not explicitly declared as PRIVATE.
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>Not really, Paul Vlad told me undeclared is a different type, see other post in this thread for the link.

Mike, the description Paul gives is the one for PRIVATE, visible in the declaring function/method/procedure and visible to anything 'lower' in the call stack where the variable is in scope.