>>>I've said it elsewhere: IMHO the single most important feature in VFP in 2000 is textmerge. The rest *can* be done by other tools like VB...
>>Nope, not EVAL().
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>Or Macro Substitution, without which, WWWC would not be available, AFAIK.

Only in certain, relatively non-vital operations, from what I can tell. The real guts of the framework use EVAL(). And now that VFP supports COMPILE at runtime, it doesn't even need CodeBlock any more.

Rick may jump in and state differently, but most of the things in the framework that use & (wwEVal.ExecuteCommand to be specific) could be done differently.