>I was thinking it would be fairly cool to keep code for some methods in a memo field in a table. Then I could change/debug without re-compiling everything.
>Has anyone done this before? Can it be done? How would I execute the code once it was in the field (eval())?

Yes, the FoxPro team has actually done this, but instead of DBFs, they gave them extensions like SCX and the memo files are SCTs ;-)

It would work like what Erik said, COMPILE, but it would probably be slower than mallasses.

I think you should take another look at your development environment, do you keep rebuilding an EXE or APP after you make a single change ot a form or something? What works better is just running the main.prg instead of the app, then it uses the files on disk as it is, not the ones compiled into an EXE or APP.

Or am I off base?