Gene... good idea, never thought of using it like that as an aide memoir. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: 14 February 2017 22:29 To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Scope Resolution :: At 01:54 2017-02-14, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: >Mike, >It is extremely hands in certain circumstances and can save you loads >of extra programming work. However like yourself I tend to forget about >it (as opposed to never knowing about it!!) and only after the event do >I realise I could have made life easier for myself!! I might have used it the odd time, but dodefault() does it for me. I did check to see how much of it is in my app and was surprised to see "::" is used in 48 files. It turned out to be just notation. I use "::" for making clear in comments that something is a class (instead of an object) as in someclass:: and someclass::somemethod() [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.

