>>A collection is a property that contains a list of elements. Each element may be a simple data type, such as a string, or could be an object, with member properties, methods and collecions of it's own. VFP can traverse a collection using the FOR EACH syntax.
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>Ed, I have always (well, not always) wondered if collections are so important in VB/Script because VB doesn't do inheritance the same way as VFP.

Nope, they're an attribute of the COM interface, and that's far from tied to VB.