>>>It's also works in WAIT WINDOW. In addition, WAIT WINDOW can show any type of variable. For example,

>>>WAIT WINDOW _VFP
>>>WAIT WINDOW _SCREEN.Top
>>>WAIT WINDOW DATE()

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>>Somehow, that one slipped by me. It's cool.
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>>Except it's going to allow us to become lazy about data types. <g>
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>Nah, they intenationaly did it half-way to save us. :) VFP wouldn't do conversion if you try to combine string with some other data type. The following wouldn't work.

WAIT WINDOW "Today: " + DATE()

So why didn't they implement it like "?". You can do ? DATE(),nValue,"textstring" and they all are printed correctly.