>>Oh, I'm sorry......don't things like that just make you wanna go FIND the >last programmer that worked on the project and......hurt them in new and >imaginative ways? > >Since the fields often had identical names (like DATE, DESC, and (really!) >MEMO) the code was --- ummm --- interesting. > >Barbara Just reminded me of a programmer who used a variable named PROC. OK, the word for percentage here is "procenat", so it sounded logical, and the compiler never complained (or she never compiled it - it was mFoxPlus), but developed many confusing, and, yes, inventive error messages. Imagine a line like proc = qty*100/totalqty Poor girl never knew why it didn't work :)