Erik,

>I saw a decent argument made for EVAL(), which I agree is a very nice feature. I don't know enough about the internal workings of macros and EVAL() to know how closely the two are tied, but I would kick and scream a lot louder if you asked me to give up EVAL.
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>>One more question. What do you think of the importance of the COMPILE command ?
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>To be honest, I think it's a really cool feature, but I have yet to use it in production. I can see how it might be very important to the author of a programming tool (like WWWC) or any other application that might need to generate code on the fly.
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>I bet that if you did a survey, you would find the percentage of VFP users who have used this feature is very low, and of those, a high percentage are using it for the wrong reasons or because of bad design.

I agree,

I think the three features COMPILE, EVAL and Macrosubstitution are very closely related. If we want a native code compiler I think we must give them all up. It isn't worth the cost if you'll ask me.

Walter,