>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.):
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>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
Vlad,

It appears that some programmer did NOT know that parameters are already PRIVATE by default and was trying to insure that the parameter was private.