>I acknowledge that there were bugs and that they were fixed. I hae trouble with both attributing the NEED to go ANSI as the only way to fix it

Not the only way, but in my view, and the view of many others, the _right_ way. FoxPro should never have allowed the ambiguous syntax in the first place and I'll bet you that most people using it don't know it's ambiguous and don't realize how it works.

I can make that bet because I've answered dozens of questions on this subject over the years and written it up for publication more than once.

Tamar