>Privates can be seen outside the routine that creates them but only if that routine is still inthe calling stack. The difference between public and private variables is that publics outliove the creating routine.

Step through this with the trace window while the locals window is open:

release x, y
suspend
do aproc

?y
?x

proc Aproc
	private x
	public y
	x=1
	y=1
endproc

You'll see in the locals that while both are available in AProc, only Y is available to the main prg. This is will AProc is still living. Is that a difference between the two, or am I still reading you wrong?

>Don't confuse the two declaration commands with the scope of the variables.

Good point, my bad

>And ... All variables created without explicitly declaring their scope are private in scope.

OK, I'll believe you. :-)