> > Please don't take things personally. I'm hopeful Andy is not saying you personally are lazy or stupid.
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> Of course I'm not! I never said anything of the sort.
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> What's more the reply wasn't even addressed to Thomas, I was replying to Ilya's question about whether I hade ever seen a PUBLIC declaration inside a class.
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> My comment about non-programmers writing code was entirely generic and based solely on my own experience
>
yepp, I know - but it sounded a bit like "everyone who uses any PUBL Var is a Dog" ... ok kinda :-)
that the main reason I jumped the train here ...
> Regards
> Andy Kramek
> Microsoft MVP (Visual FoxPro)
>
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