Mr. Booth,

I am not sure of the meaning of the term loose typing. Is it equal to weak typing?

Variable names should always be declared with LOCAL, PRIVATE or PUBLIC in any reasonable application, either locally or globally. They do not have to be strong typed.

This should be a runtime option that can be turned on. This way if I mispell a variable called phoneExt and someplace I initialize phonExt the system should throw an error that variable was never declared as a proper variable.

There are cases where you would not have to declare the variables (such as in the command line) but other than that it would be bad practice if you did not.

VFP is at the point where it should close this development nuisance.