I have the July2000 MSDN and LOCAL in there makes no mention of comma-delimited.

Under "Arguments" "VarList simply says "Speficies one or more variables to create.".
The "Remarks" section makes no mention.

It is worth noting that the syntax layout for LOCAL ARRAY declarations *does* show a comma BETWEEN array definitions.


>It kinda has to do with Intellisense. It's really tied to "strong typing" (which was added for Intellisense).
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>I don't have a previous VFP help file to look at, but Hacker's Guide 6.0 states:
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>"ParameterList is a comma-delimited list of variable names that receive the parameters when the routine is called."
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>If I remember correctly, the VFP docs previously stated it was comma delimited, although spaces worked. Whether it was documented or not this way, the behavior changed.
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>>An interesting 'take' on that problem, Craig... I more see it as VFP requires the comma while it didn't before and NOT that versions prior to 7 were erroneous in letting it through in the first place.
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>>In fact the VFP7 documentation, under behaviour changes, says it is because of Intellisense that this was changed.
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