>Again, it's a feature. If you don't want it to occur, design accordingly.

George, i agree with pretty much everything you say, it's better to code defensivly. But features can be changed, thats why the fox team added try-catch functionnality but to IMO they forgot to include a couple of things in it.

Which of the following would you like better:

try
   Select MyCursor
   Scan
   ....
   EndScan
Catch
   ....
endtry

Or

try
   If Used("MyCursor")
     Select MyCursor
     Scan
     ....
     EndScan
   Else
     Throw "Something"
   Endif
Catch
   ....
endtry

The two method do exactly the same thing but i have 4 more line of code in the second one. Do you like to type for nothing?