>Answer me this please. I know it is ill-advised to use reserved words as functions and variables, but what are the consequences of say creating a procedure called 'refresh' or declaring 'isreadonly' as a private variable? I ask because I am trying to find the anomalies in an application delivered by others. The developer is a FPD/FPW hardcore (all SAY and GET, 200+ *.prgs and all free tables), but he put the program on VFP runtime. I want to find out if the quirks I am seeing are related to the inappropriate use of reserved words.
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>TIA and wish me luck

As stated in another reply you got, I agree that it is hard to guess in advance when problems will appear.

I got problems once with views, because I had named a field "Value". This evidently confused the SQL statements generated internally to update the records.

Hilmar.