>Sergey and Jim-
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>>>...and, to round it all out, there are the parameters indicated within parentheses after the name on a FUNCTION statement. These are implicitly LOCAL too,although I couldn't find this documented in the (VFP7) Help for "FUNCTION Command".
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>The help for FUNCTION shows the alternate form (using parens). So not sure what Jim meant by that. But, hacker's covers this.

He knows to much :) If you read just help you would came to that conclusion but if you know that PARAMETERS can also be used in function than it's not so obvious.

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>>3. How would you call function usually? m.somevariable = Somefunction()? You would think so but help only says "When you issue DO with a function name, Visual FoxPro searches for the function in a specific order as follows: ...".
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>There is, so far as I can tell, no difference between PROCEDURE and FUNCTION except convention. Try this:
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>MESSAGEBOX( hello("Jim's Circus" ) )
>PROCEDURE hello(t1)
>RETURN t1

You know that, I know that but it's not in the help for FUNCTION statement. Isn't this part of the help confusing, at least?

>It is by convention that we use FUNCTION for routines that return values.
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What about people who're new to VFP but know other languages?