>reading a recent post, I read ( then proved ) that if you declear a private var in you main program it will have golbal scope.
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>WHY!!!?!?!?!
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>unless I'm mistaken, in most ( if not all ) other programming languages when you declair a private var it is scoped to that file, method, function, etc. I should be able to declair the Var isSomeThing as private anywhere in the program, and anywhere else ( other than that function, etc. ) isSomeThing should not exist, irregardless of how it came to that piece of code ( even if it is in the main.prg file ).
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>I don't understand why the deviation on something so primitive.
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>- jer

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To maintain backward compatibility, VFP added the LOCAL keyword for this type of variable. In the FPD/FPW days, we didn't have variables scoped to procedures/methods. As George said, PRIVATE in those days menat visible from this point on in the call stack. In order not to break this and to add a needed concept, LOCAL was born.
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