Hi Andrew

Nancy could have been more diplomatic, but she was correct. I intend no offense by this post. Your statement was macro substitution would not work in a method, but would work in .PRGs. You supported this with speculation that they are compiled differently. That is hardly a scientific approach. Nancy did provide constructive advice, prove your statement(s) before posting them.

I believe PRGs and methods are both pseudo-compiled. The prg results in a .FXP and the method results in a memo field containing "object code". To prove my assertion, I took the code from a simple method and copied it into a .PRG and compiled it. Visual examination of the .FXP and the objcode memo field show they are virtually identical. I cannot say they are physically identical, since I can't think of a way to run my hex editor against one memo field. However, its obvious that both files contain "object code". Therefore the two are not compiled differently, therefore your speculation is not correct.

It is true that eval and & have some differences, but that wasn't what you said.

It would be prudent if no further criticism were directed at either party.