>>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
>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.
Hi Jim,
I wonder if PARAMETERS is just enough to make a variable PRIVATE to only one PROC.

public myvar
myvar = 12

do lowerproc with myvar
do anotherproc


proc lowerproc
PARAMETERS myvar
myvar = 25

proc anotherproc
? myvar

Cetin