Gene, I should just let this drop, but you make too easy a target! > Languages that make it too easy to make errors are not correct > in my eyes.
A syntactic error is mathematically provable, and thus a fact. Whether it was easy is an opinion. > I believe I was using it with 6. I have been using that > pattern for a long time. No, you weren't. From the VFP9 Help: In earlier versions of Visual FoxPro, you cannot place && and a comment after the semicolon that is used to continue a command line to an additional line. You really SHOULD read the specs before yelling BUG! (Not that it isn't a common failing. In 50+ years of programming, probably 2/3 of the 'bugs' I've found have been errors on my part.) Dan --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
