I agree with Emmanuel on this subject. I'd rather do a true overload on a method rather that VFP's "workaround" to an overload. It's much more elegant and straightforward in my opinion. Each overload should be treated as seperate methods in code due to the fact that parameters differ and thus different processing may insue. If there are 4, 5, 6 ect. overloads of a method, that could get pretty messy with IF or CASE statements in VFP. I'm not saying it won't work, but it's less readable and less elegant, and not mention, does not follow true OOP standards.