>Well said. We can forget that a method has a "context" and that context has to be recreated if the code is removed from the method proper.
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>The one time I found a mechanism like this was in a conversion program in FPDos. That approach really simplified the coding. It turned out, interestingly enough, rather like the Access expression builder. Today, I'd consider using an OO approach.

And, as Nadya pointed out, if you do compile then call an external PRG [or just call a procedure located outside the current object], you do have the option of passing an object reference to the procedure -- DO SOMEPROC WITH THIS