>The people who came from Fox 2.x tend to use '=' sign because it's required in Fox 2.x...
Or from VFP 3. In VFP5 it wasn't required any more to start with "=".
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)