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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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Regards
> > Andy Kramek
> > Microsoft MVP (Visual FoxPro)
> > Tightline Computers Inc, Akron Ohio, USA
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>
> nope sorry Andy,
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> you just said to me i should not quote only half of something so here is that you said:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> which means you are totally against PUBl Vars ....

You should have mentioned, then, that I am totally against implicit private memvars' declaration and consider this as capital crime. (:>)

Regards,

Ilya