>>
>>As I said to Mike, I don't disagree. What's the price in terms of overhead, though? More stuff in "backward compatible pile". I'd like to see some of the junk no one uses anymore hit the scrap heap first.
>
>
>Well, it would have to replace the existing commands. And, yes, there is lots of baggage from older versions that can go away. How about the stuff in there for the Mac? That, IMO, would be easy to take out. How much it would reduce the size of the product, I don't know.

Unless there are some plans to resurrect the cross-platform abilities of VFP, I'd say that this would be a great place to start.

>>
>>I think we once had a discussion about what I thought was cool with the VB editor. As I recall, you didn't agree.:-)
>
>I don't remember this, but there are things I don't like about the VB editor. There are also things I don't like about the VFP editor.

I'm very fond of the way the VB editor spaces out my code for me. Then again, you know how AR I am about that sort of thing.< g >

>>
>>See Erik's post to me? There's hope, bro, there's hope.:-)
>
>I did see that. Calvin, are you lurking??? Put it in VFP8! You probably have some vacation time coming up pretty soon. *g*

Maybe we could request some extra vacation time for Calvin just for this purpose.:-)

>>
>>I would love to see collections added to VFP in general, not just for COM.
>
>I agree.

I mean, yeah, you can kludge it with arrays, but it's just that...a kludge.