>Yeah, I know. At least working around this is no big deal. It was just danged annoying until I actually traced through the code. Doing the same thing using objects that are not collections works as expected [AFAIK] so I tried the same with my collection.
>
>To get the expected results, I just changed my actual code to:

>PROCEDURE GetFormObjectRef
>    LPARAMETERS tcName
>    tcName = ALLTRIM(UPPER(tcName))
>    LOCAL loForm, loReturn
>    loReturn = .null.
>    FOR EACH loForm IN THIS.FormList
>        IF UPPER(loForm.NAME) == tcName AND UPPER(loForm.BASECLASS) = 'FORM'
>            loReturn = loForm
>        ENDIF
>    ENDFOR
>    RETURN loReturn
>ENDPROC

Well, I didn't mean that you had to by-pass the early exit.< g >

If VFP is doing what I speculated, then, I think, we should view it as a good thing. A PITA for us to have to change? Sure! I'd rather have to make such change if it reduced memory problems, which are very hard to track down. Wouldn't you?