>>>VFP has no declare and initialize style command.
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>>...Yet :-)
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>Does that little smile mean it's on the works for SP1 as we speak??? :-))

In general, service packs are to fix showstopping bugs. New features arrive in new versions. I don't think there will ever be a VFP8 SP1. I'm looking forward to this new feature in VFP.Next.