>VFP no longer cares and infact, if there are no parameters, you can even leave off the ().
Omitting the parameters would work only for methods, but not for regular functions.
The following doesn't work without the parentheses:
MyFunction
FUNCTION MyFunction
MessageBox("Hello")
ENDFUNC
And in methods, I personally prefer to leave the parentheses for readability (to distinguish methods vs. properties).
Hilmar.
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