Garrett...
>>He suggested, in possibly his best English, that it would be a good idea to have the
>>feature. Later he made the fatal mistake of saying that he considered it a BUG. Then
>>the piling on REALLY started.
>
>Looks like 2 out of the first 3 posts explained the behavior, and suggested workarounds. After he called this "an absurdity", _then_ the piling on started.

I guess we read things differently. It is clear to me that those two out of three were well disguised insults, as in 'you clearly don't know how to program and stop pestering us with this syuff until you do'.

>
>Some selected quotes from Fabio in this thread:
>
>"Thanks, but this is one absurdity.
>VFPT cannot put a little little flag for to inhibit this ?"
>
>"I'm happy that someone knows the development and application concept.
>This is a VFP design BUG."
>
>"In-fact a Canadian Immigration Office
>( on another UT Chatter past thread )
>it write that VFP is not a developer application.
>Considering this behaviour,
>the Canadian office has found a reason for this affirmation."
>
>"However the VFP destiny is marked,
>i'm sure that VFP11 will not never exist."
>
>Somehow, I suspect Fabio has never read How To Win Friends And Influence People. :-)

I attribute every one of those to (mostly) literal translation with a limited English vocabulary. Of course when one is bent on killing the messenger then these become quotes worthy of piling on.

Jim