>Have you ever looked at SBT code? If you removed macro substitution from VFP, SBT will not run and will require a complete rewrite (which, IMO, needs to be done anyway).

That's not my problem. SBT is a poorly written product.

Before you cite the amount of work it would take to remove vs the gained benefits, let me state that I have no idea if it ould be worth it. My only argument in this thread is that macro substitution is always bad, and in most cases not necessary. It would be completely unnecessary if the VFP team would throw us a small bone in the form of a few commands designed to take care of the stuff that we currently need macros for.