Larry,

>It then raises the question "How do you create a variable with private scope?". In the past, variables created without a defined scope (local, public) were created with the default scope of Private.
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>Maybe the Fox team will have to change the functionality of private (not good IMO) or add a new scope indicator (better IMO).

Interesting... The only way I see now to initialize a variable with private scope is to first set _VFP.LanguageOptions=0, unless they give us some other syntax to handle it.