I agree. I take it to the extreme, though, and advocate getting rid of constants altogether. I'd much rather see a short comment than a constant whose value I need to go look up since it won't show up in the debugger.

Michelle


>Hey all.
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>Maybe this is rhetorical.
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>But why do almost all VFP code examples insist on using a #DEFINE variable for MESSAGEBOXs? For example,
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>=MESSAGEBOX("You screwed up!",MB_ICONSTOP,"Error!")
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>Seems to me this is counterproductive. Why not just use the doggone number 16? Otherwise, you have to remember to do the #DEFINE or attach the .H file.