>James,
>When I made the transition from FoxPro DOS to VFP this distinction went right over my head. Much of the code that worked in FoxPro worked 'sometimes' in VFP and I guess this is one of the reasons. I would have preferred that Microsoft has come up with a completely new syntax rather than just changing the behavior of an existing one- but then again I did not read and understand the documentation.

They didn't change the behavior. It's always worked the way Jim described it. However, the way we code in VFP may be different enough that it's more noticeable now.

Tamar