>My preference would have been along the lines of reporting the potential problem of ANSI comaptibility in a SYS(3054) message or such BUT otherwise leaving either as valid within VFP. That way no code would have been 'broken' and implementation of VFP8 could happen unimpeded with plans to later address the ANSI issues.

I understand your position, but I think the Fox team thought it was more important to prevent us from coding this wrong in the future than to protect our older code. Without blowing my NDA, I think I can say that the right approach was discussed at length and the general consensus was to do it the way it ended up.

Tamar