Hi Bill,

I swear I'm not dogging you :-)

The point Erik raised is not the theoretical benefit of constants, and there are many. But it's the squirrelly and hazard-prone way in which VFP supports them that makes them a pain.

It's like OOAD principles. I find myself violating them at least once in every application I develop. Why? Because the "true and correct" way sometimes gets in the way of the goal, which is to create a hassle-free, error-less application for my client.

It's like Codebook (Menachem, Yag -- don't sent hit men after me). Or the Tastrade example. Technically beautiful constructs but applications designed on those "politically correct" frameworks run like shit. IMHO, a client doesn't care how pretty things are under the hood, they want results.