Sorry about that folks...I managed to answer my own question..but it disturbs me. Why does this work ?

LOCAL loErr

loErr = this

ON ERROR loErr.adoconnectionerror()

and

ON ERROR this.adoconnectionerror()

not work.

They should be the same thing.

I can't work VFP out. The amount of times I have to do something daft like this (I have to use macro substitution, which should have been dumped with the ark, more times than I care for) is ridiculous. Every other language I've ever used manages to evaluate simple expressions involving basic pointer constructs without any problem so why can't VFP. This is basic bread n butter stuff!

I've got to get another job!

Pablo