>I didn't notice this in the "New....." section or the "Enhancements..." section of the VFP7 documentation, nor does the RETURN Command write-up mention it, so I thought I'd mention it here as it seems quite important to me.
>
>An array can be specified as eExpression of a RETURN command provided that:
>1) the array was passed by reference into the function in the first place;
>2) the array is still in scope when the RETURN executes.
>
>Found this reading "What's New in Visual FoxPro 7.0" from Hentzenwerkes.

Yes, it does work, but probably not like most folks would like. Try the following:

FUNCTION ArrayTest
  LPARAMETER ta_foo

  EXTERNAL ARRAY ta_foo
  DIMENSION ta_foo[2]
  ta_foo[1] = "A"
  ta_foo[2] = "B"
  RETURN ta_foo
ENDFUNC

DIMENSION a_foo[1]
a_foo = NULL
a_foo = ArrayTest(@a_foo)
DISPLAY MEMORY LIKE a_foo

You'll see that the array is re-dimensioned but the values in both elements are the same. I also tried this with numbers.