> > I think you owe one to Herr Bahr! Read his reply to you and say: "Touché!" (LOL!)
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> Why? I never said I didn't ever use a Public Variable. All I said was:
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>
> Apart from anything else the quoted example is a tiny sub-set (posted without comments or explanation - and entirely out of context) from a procedural program (certainly not a class definition) used to set the working environment for a presentation that I gave at the San Diego DevCon in 2001.
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> This code is not even supposed to be application code - it's just the configuration program for a conference session - which is hardly a normal operating environment.
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> Regards
> Andy Kramek
> Microsoft MVP (Visual FoxPro)
> Tightline Computers Inc, Akron Ohio, USA


nope sorry Andy,

you just said to me i should not quote only half of something so here is that you said:

Ilya Rabyy > OTOH, I am not totally against PUBLIC memvars: I do frown on it, but I don't see a capital crime in usage, albeit quite minimal, of PUBLIC memvars.

Andy Kramek> I am!
Andy Kramek> I have never found a scenario where a PUBLIC variable is the only solution. There is always an alternative and the alternative is always better.


which means you are totally against PUBl Vars ....