>Hi Nadya,
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>Thanks for your feedback. It looks like I'm in the ball park with my lists. BTW, you and I are on the same page with respect to 'declare, dimension, local' (they are actually buried in the current lists, sometimes separated by the '|' symbol where one or more commands are similar). Likewise for array functions (vs. commands) which I mentioned in my original (uncorrected) post.
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>I'm not sure I agree with your suggestions for CreateObject or NewObject. I would interpret these as 'functions' vs. commands, i.e. you have to assign the return value from these functions to a variable via an assignment statement vs. calling these functions as commands. Although, to quote Dennis Miller, I could be mistaken.
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>Regards,
>Malcolm

Malcolm,

I beleive, CreateObject and NewObject could be invoked without declarations. In this case, the object would be created, but it would not be declared, and, threfore, I don't know, how it could be accessed...
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>>Two additions, which I've just thought:
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>>declare/dimension, local array, CreateObject, NewObject...
>>
>>BTW, I don't see in your list array functions. There are lots of them:
>>afields, adbobjects, alines, etc.
>>
>>>This email updates my orignal email's list of commands by adding the following commands: Lparameters, Parameters, Function, and Procedure.
>>>
>>>Here is my short list of VFP commands/syntax that create, release or potentially update variables. Note that in the following list, VAR is used to describe simple, scalar variables, arrays, or objects. I recognize that my grouping of commands into contemporary and deprecated (commands that we should no longer use) is highly subjective.
>>>
>>>Contemporary commands:
>>>- Assignment statements: VAR = expression
>>>- Average|Calculate|Count|Sum expression [, expression ... ] to VAR [, VAR ... ]
>>>- Copy to array VAR ...
>>>- Do myfun with VAR [, VAR ... ] // forces variables to be passed by reference
>>>- Explict passing of variables by reference: myfun( @VAR [, @VAR ... ] )
>>>- Function myfun( VAR [, VAR ... ] )
>>>- For [ VAR = ... | each VAR in ]
>>>- Lparameters VAR [, VAR ... ]
>>>- Paramaters VAR [, VAR ... ]
>>>- Procedure myfun( VAR [, VAR ... ] )
>>>- Public|Local|Dimension VAR [, VAR... ]
>>>- Scatter [ memvar | to VAR| name VAR ]
>>>- Select ... into array VAR
>>>- Set textmerge to VAR memvar // new in VFP7!
>>>- Store expression to VAR [, VAR ... ]
>>>
>>>Deprecated commands:
>>>- @ ... get VAR
>>>- Accept ... to VAR
>>>- Clear memory
>>>- Declare VAR [, VAR ... ] // Dimension is the 'prefered' syntax
>>>- Private VAR [, VAR ... ] // does not create vars, but hides visibility
>>>- Release [ like pattern | except pattern ]
>>>- Restore from ... [additive]
>>>- Set Udfparms to reference // Udfparms 'should' be set to value