>Hi Dawa,
>
>Actually, because of the macros, that line is not compiled during compilation time, but during runtime. That explains why the error is not catched.
>
Hi, Walter,

Thanks for the reply.

That makes very much sense to me. But it seems to me that it should catch the error on line 6 in the code below regardless of macro subtitution of the alias name. Clearly, a comma right in front of FROM is incorrect syntactically.

*bug.prg
1. LPARAMETERS m.lpcAlias,m.lpnid
2.	SELECT &lpcAlias..filenum ;
3.		&lpcAlias..a, ;
4.		&lpcAlias..b ;
5.		&lpcAlias..c, ;
6.		&lpcAlias..d, ; && This line
7.		FROM  &lpcAlias ;
8.		ON &lpcAlias..id = m.lpnid;
9.		INTO CURSOR curTemp NOFILTER

Dawa