>George,
>
>The PUBLIC and LOCAL statements declare variables and initialize them to .F.
>The PRIVATE statement doesn't declare a variable at all but hides any variables with the same name if they exist up to the caling chain. The following code demonstrates that

>PRIVATE lcVar
>? lcVar     && Error: Variable not found
>LOCAL lcVar
>? lcVar     && No Error>

>
>>
>>By default any variables declared as PRIVATE or LOCAL are initialized to .F.
>>
>>What I do is to add the variables to a LOCAL statement as I first access or assign them.
>>
>>This is really a problem with testing. If you properly test the code, then these issues go away.

Sergey,

You're right, of course. Just what I should get since I don't use PRIVATEs in VFP.< s >