Alex
Thank you for your kind response and sugestions. I think too that OOP is great and powerful staff and I been using it in C++ even before VFP did exist. But my point is: having full @SAY backward compatibility would hurt OOP as much as its lack is hurting programers to port their apps?.
Consider this scenario: I have this huge FPW app affected by the "fast CPU" sindrome, even I did any patch and trick on the book. It wont be profitable to make a whole redo but I still could make a buck if I convert it.
I think the VFP converter wizard does a good job at it but then you have to spend time in this kind of issues, otherwise avoided.