> On the other hand, I know exactly what you mean, Arthur. Although
> I’ve only been programming in OOP-VFP for a few months, it has
> happened on more than one occasion, that the class I downloaded had
> a serious bug in it, and I had to get under the hood, figure out the
> problem, and correct it. And these classes were from ‘reputable sources.’
>
> I think the difference between now and olden times is that then we
> could all trust the compiler not to be ‘buggy’. That is not as true
> now as it was then.

Thank you ... I like the example you cited. What's even worse is, what if there was a problem and you built your system to ACCOMODATE or work around the problem, and then someone FIXED the problem and broke your code?