George, i understand your crusade but still dont get what it has to do with the request from the original post.

It's not about coding technique, not about function wrappers, not about lazy programmers, not about best practices... it's only about our runtime attempting to do something we would rather code exception against.

Cheers!

>I keep coming back to it, not because I don't think you understand, but rather to keep the focus on what's a good practice and what isn't. In my experience, both with Fox and other languages, I keep running across the same problems caused by the developer's themselves.
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>The problem isn't that these aren't very intelligent, informed people. To the contrary, they are. The problem is that they don't know how to properly construct software, or don't believe that employing the "best practices" yields any tangible benefit.
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>In fact, employing the best practices not only yields software that is easier to modify and maintain, but is more flexible and makes development of new software faster. This has been proven time and time again through research.