Vlad,

I don't see why you respond to Vinod's simple question with a (snarky, in my opinion) "yes, of course".
I elected to pass on your initial query because you seemed to have omitted some potentially important information, the most basic of which was Vinod's simple question!

Your original question certainly *IMPLIED* that there was no other reference to the field(s) in question, cause if there was it would have made sense for you to mention it. You *IMPLIED* that this code stood alone and appeared useless.

Now we learn it does *NOT* stand alone. Perhaps, with the *FULL* background, some sensible answer can be derived.

Cheers,
Jim N

That very>>>Recently, I had to optimize/debug/verify/etc an old project written in FP 2.6.
>>>
>>>At the begining of the main program I found the following code that doesn't make any sense to me. (I also asked other FoxPro programmers from our team, but no answer was found.):
>>>
>>>parameter Cmd_Param
>>>
>>>if type("Cmd_Param") = "C"
>>> TempVar = Cmd_Param
>>> release Cmd_Param
>>> private Cmd_Param
>>> Cmd_Param = TempVar
>>>endif
>>>
>>>I can't find any reason to have this piece of code in the program since, IMO, it does nothing. Am I missing something? Is there something subtle/secret/etc and I don't see it?
>>>
>>>Vlad
>>
>>Afterwards in the program, Is it checking the value of cmd_param ??
>
>Yes, of course. Why?
>
>Vlad