I never said having fun was not a priority. I just want to use fun as a means for educating my child. That's the way I learnt, and that's why things like syntactic analysis of sentences, algebra and the like was much, much less painful than they are for most people. Of course, I am not going to push my child into learning those things, but I will make them available to him at an earlier age than it is available to most. Eduardo León

People - abstractions - dumbing down? Welcome to my world. At this point, it's solid habit. I've come to observe that there is a (small) subset of humanity that is clearly more awake than the rest. They often (but not always) go into technical fields. I've even met a clergyman who's 'aware'. Nothing to worry about - as another responder noted, you get used to it all and adapt conversations automatically. Programming has done its damage on me (Answer a Yes/No question? true, false, don't-care states). Linear Algebra, too - and it did have one nice effect: accepting different philosophical views (for example) by assuming a different basis set. If the basis set is complete, then it describes everything - just in a different way. Also, a good way to approach problems. How often I get into trouble when I try to stop someone from explaining the obvious conclusion of their remarks - or worse - when they make a few simple statements and then feel the need to spell out to me the implications. Along with this comes the awareness that there are probably others further advanced in this (or some) direction coping with my state in much the same way. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert "It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol

Yes, a method could do that for you (you could also use a method to read a variable, so why have properties at all?) I'm sure there are a number of situations where there is a property that you want to write to, but not read from. It comes down to a matter of how elegant you want the code to be. For example, which of the following two appears to be more elegant (some variables not declared for simplicity)? Dim sTemp as String Dim oFoo as New Foo sTemp = StringReturningFunction(x,y,z) oFoo.SetValue(sTemp) or Dim oFoo as New Foo oFoo.WriteOnlyProperty = StringReturningFunction(x,y,z)

The quote in my sig? Yes, the guy who made the comment made it as a joke. The joke isn't about all Indians. Take a look around the forums for a day or 2 and you will see that there are some bad apples. I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet. "If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer