It is not a bad practice, I agree. The other bad thing in VFP is that there is nothing that prevent you from doing this:

x = 1
x = 'A'

You couldn't do this in C#.

>There is a very thin line between declaring and assigning a value to a variable.
>
>In VFP

>x = 1 && Declare and assing x to 1 (declared as private)

>IN C#

>int x = 1; // Declare and assing x to 1 (declared as local)

>what is different ? both language can declare and assign on the same statement, is it bad practice ? IMHO it is not, the bad thing is that x is declared private in VFP.