Hi Craig,
Thought I would let you know, I now have a better understanding of why it's not OOP.
Craig put it into words that made sense to me.

But as Marcia and Hilmar pointed out, OOP is not necessarily the most efficient way to accomplish things.



>>I disagree that WPARENT() is different than other OOP Parent references.
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>WPARENT is not oop, period.
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>See Marcia's solution for a better (as in an oop) way to do what you want, and it's not complicated, just for that one task.
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>I'm not going to debate W***() functions further, I can see we disagree.
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>Probably the most problematic for you is that the behavior you are now seeing with WPARENT is more-or-less "by accident" and may well behave differently (or not at all) in future vfp versions. W***() functions are throwbacks to pre-oop days, and I don't know anyone who uses them anymore.
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>Besides, that darn WONTOP always made me hungry every time I saw it, reminding me of WONTONs.